MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22418, 3 June 1938, Page 4

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Clarence Albert Butterfield, aged 33 years single, a cabinetmaker, of St. Martins (Mr H. W. Hunter) was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering with theft. On a senes of theft charges he was remanded for sentence to June 24. The charges against Butterfield were. Theft on May 3, of carpentering tools, valued at £2 12s 6d, the property of Robert Cracroft McLean Symes; the theft on April 22 of a fountain-pen, valued at 30s, the property of some person or persons unknown; the theft on or about April 22, of a quantity of tools valued at 15s 3d, the property of some person or persons unknown; the theft on May 27 of some tools valued at 11s Bd, the property of some person or persons unknown; the theft of tools on April 27, valued at £1 4s 3d. the property of some person or persons unknown: the theft on May 16 of tools valued at £1 7s, the property of some person or persons unknown, and with breaking and entering the counting-house of Charles Henry'Moir and stealing a silver time and stop-watch, valued at £lO. YOUTHS CHARGED For stealing three gallons of petrol valued at 5s 10id, the property of George Airey Homer Kirkpatrick, five youths, Richmond Heaton Smith (Mr D. W. Russell). David Russel Green (Mr A. C. Brassington), Gordon Robert Bell, and Warren James Cahill (Mr H. S. Clark), all of whom pleaded guilty, were each fined £5 and ordered to pay costs, in default 30 days’ imprisonment. On the same charge, Douglas William Barlow and William Hamilton Noonan were convicted and remanded for sentence. Leonard Ernest Crothell Was fined £5 and ordered to pay costs, in default 30 days’ imprisonment, and Green and Smith were ordered to come up for sentence if called on in 12 months for the theft of three gallons of petrol valued at 5s 10Jd, the property of a person or persons unknown. For the theft of one gallon of petrol valued at 2s Id, the property of Roy Boyle, Bell, Green, Smith, and Cahill were ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 months, and Barlow was convicted and remanded for sentence. For the police, Detective-Sergeant T. E. Holmes said that they were all young men who needed a sharp lesson. The petrol had been siphoned from cars. The Magistrate said that probation was out of the question. If they thought that they could go about practising the contemptible habit of siphoning petrol from other persons’ cars, they would meet trouble. Bell, who was also charged with the theft on May 28 of one wheel-brace spanner valued at 6s, the property of a person or persons unknown, was convicted and discharged, and Noonan who was charged with the theft on May 28 of a clock valued at 10s. the property of Donald Roderick Gillies, was convicted and remanded for sentence. BREAKING, ENTERING, AND THEFT Gilbert Harry Brewer, aged 19 years, of Buxton terrace, St. Martins, pleaded guilty to a charge that, on or about April 24, he broke and entered the house of Mrs -Ruby Low. at Buxton terrace, and committed theft therein Constable J. Connell read a statement by accused in which he admitted ! making a duplicate key of the front door from a piece of wire, and breaking open a cash box he found in a cupboard with a pair of pliers. He had said that he was looking for money, as he wanted a new suit of clothes. He did not find any money, but found two wills in the cash box, and he later burnt these. Brewer was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence after pleading guilty to this charge, and was further remanded for sentence on June 24 on summary charges on which he had been convicted earlier in the week. He was represented by, Mr H. W. Hunter, CIVIL COURT (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF Judgment for plaintiff in claim and counter-claim was given when L. F. and M. H. Williams (Mr F. D. Sargent) claimed £lO 2s 7d from Richard Henry Palmer (Mr R. A. Young) for damages to their car incurred when, through the allegedly negligent driving of the defendant, it collided with the defendant’s car at the corner of Stanmorc road and Cashel street on January 10. It was claimed that the defendant was negligent in that he failed to keep a proper look-out, failed to give way to the right, and did not exercise proper control of his car.* The counter-claim, which *as not upheld, was for £lB as damages to the defendant's car. VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT Judgment for the defendant with costs was given when Franks, Ltd., claimed £ll3 from Henry Marshall, a former licensee of the Oxford Hotel (Mr J. D. Hutchison), as a land agent’s commission due for the alleged sale by them of the lease of the Oxford Hotel. UNDEFENDED CASES Judgment for plaintiff by default with costs was given in each of the following undefended cases;— Brown Bros. v. R. W. £ 2 13s 9d; Messrs Stowell and Lithgow, trading as the Wholesale Boot Company, v. Earl Victor Hazeldine, £4 6s 6d; Commissioner of Taxes v. William Karl Sunley, costs only; E. Cameron Smith, Ltd., v. O. M. Hammond, £5 11s Id; Lamb and Hayward, Ltd., v. E. Shackleton, £1 ss; Calder Mackay Company, Ltd., v. D. J. Greaney, £l2 7s. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES On a judgment summons H. E. Davis was ordered to pay V. W. Spinks £5 19s 7d forthwith, in default six days’ imprisonment, the issue of the warrant to be suspended so long as 10s a week is paid. W. Carrington was ordered to pay Stirlings Londoq Warehouse £4 4s 6d forthwith, in default four days’ imprisonment, the Issue of the warrant to be suspended so long as 10s a week is paid. William Jack Bowes was ordered to pay Supply Stores, Ltd., £5 17s lOd forthwith, in default six days’ imprisonment, the issue of the warrant to be suspended so long as 10s a week is paid. I. Cross was ordered to pay Ronald Gilbert £1 11s forthwith, in default four days’ imprisonment, the issue of the warrant to be suspended until June 16.