MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23043, 11 June 1940, Page 12

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

MONDAY (Before Mr H. A. Young, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS Cyril Clifford Banks pleaded guilty to charges of being found drunk in a public place and of procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order. On the first he was fined IDs, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, and on the second he was fined 10s. He was ordered to pay costs on each. THEFT Raymond Leslie McClure was convicted and fined 20s on a charge of stealing a leather helmet valued at 3s 6d, the property of F. P. Smith. De-tective-Sergeant J. McClung said that McClure had admitted the theft when interviewed, and had made restitution. INTOXICATED DRIVER Convicted on a charge (to which he pleaded not guilty) of having been intoxicated in charge of a motor-cycle in Bealey avenue on June 8, Hugh Hector McCaw, a soldier from Burnham, was ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 months, was ordered to take out a prohibition order, and was prohibited from obtaining a driving licence before June 10, 1941. He was also ordered to pay medical expenses. , McCaw pleaded guilty to three other charges—driving without a licence, driving without lights, and using a motor-cycle knowing it was not licensed. He was convicted and discharged on each. Evidence by a traffic inspector was that McClure, who had been driving a machine without lights and bearing last year’s number-plates, had stated when stopped that he had had three beers. When he was asked to walk a few steps he had fallen over with the motor-cycle on top of him. Evidence was also given by two constables. . „ ■ _ _ Sub-Inspector E. T. C. Turner conducted the case for the police. The Magistrate said he would take into consideration the authorities’ report that McClure had been a good soldier and would be sent overseas if his age (38) did not debar him. MAINTENANCE CASES (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) Ernest Adair Boucher was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for default of payments, warrant to be suspended provided arrears are paid Off within 14 days. Thomas Gilmore Falconer was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisoonment, warrant to bfe suspended provided arrears are paid off at the rate of 2s 6d a week in addition to current maintenance, A maintenance order was made against Douglas Gilmore Donaldson to pay £3 a week for his wife and children and to pay £l2 past maintenance. Richard Nelson Eden, on each of two charges of default of payment (to his wife and to his child); was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 months, a cendition being that he pay current maintsnance. Bertrand Frederick Spiers was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, warrant to be suspended provided £1 a week is paid off arrears in addition to current maintenance. Henry Mark Share (Mr E. A. Cleland) was ordered to pay Emily Frances Share (Mr W. F. Tracy) 5s a week for the maintenance of a daughter, and £1 past maintenance.