MAGISTRATES COURT

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23537, 15 January 1942, Page 3

MAGISTRATES COURT

■ ♦ WEDNESDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) ON ENCLOSED PREMISES Leonard Keith Aldridge (Mr C. V. Lester), miner, aged 32, pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found on the enclosed premises of N. F. Penfold. farrier, Madras street, without lawful excuse, but in circumstances that did not disclose the commission of or the intention to commit any other offence. Sub-Inspector E. T. C. Turner said at 10.45 o’clock on the evening of January 13 a constable on night patrol heard the sound of somebody climbing over a high fence at Penfold’s yard. Investigating, he found the accused, who said that, seeing a light in a nearby shop owned by a Chinese, he was going to ask the occupants to put it out. The only light the constable could find in the shop was through a key-hole. , ~ If his story was correct, Aldridge, who showed signs of liquor, had no right to go through the yard, Sub-In-spector Turner said. Accused, a returned soldier of this war, had a previous list. Mr Lester said his client had been brought back from Suva and discharged from the Army because of tuberculosis in a hip-bone. Aldridge had a previous list, but he had had much trouble from his wife, and since his separation from her he had been keeping out of trouble. Aldridge was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within two years, a condition being that he take out a prohibition order for each year of the term.