MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24475, 26 January 1945, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr Raymond - Ferner, S.M.)

.IMPRISONMENT George Andrew Kinley, aged 20, a baconer’s assistant (Mr W. R. Lascelles), was charged with converting a car valued at £6O on January 24, with being intoxicated in charge of a car, and with driving a car without a licence. Sub-Inspector G. J. Paine said that the accused had been stopped in Bealey avenue while driving a small car, which he had converted to his own use. He was drunk, and had no driver’s licence. On the charge of conversion, the accused was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment with hard labour: on the charge of intoxication in charge of a car, he was sentenced to 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labour; and on the remaining charge, he was convicted and discharged. REMANDS GRANTED George William Settle, aged 56, a chemist (Mr A. H. Cavell), was charged that on December 12, 1944, he unlawfully used a certain Instrument to procure a miscarriage. . Senior-Detective H. Nuttall, applying for a remand until next Wednesday, said that the hearing of the case would take a full day. Two additional charges would be preferred. Mr Cavell said that very little time would be left for the preparation of a case for the Supreme Court at its next sessions. It might be necessary to ask for the case to be transferred to the following sessions of the Court, The Magistrate remanded Settle to 8D» pear on Wednesday, bail being renewed. John Payne, aged 50, a labourer, charged with indecent assault on a female, was remanded until January 29. ON LICENSED PREMISES George Baker and William . Hall, charged with being found on licensed premises after hours, were each fined 20s. OIL FUEL REGULATIONS Charged that, with intent to deceive, she made a false or misleading statement in an application to the Oil Fuel Controller for eight gallons of petrol, Olga Wacked Poulton, a married woman, was fined £lO. Senior-Detective Nuttall, for the prosecution; said Mrs Poulton had represented to the Oil Fuel Controller at Christchurch on October 20, 1944, that she had an important appointment at Timaru with a doctor who was to examine her daughter, and that she had missed the train. Seven gallons of petrol were allotted to her. Actually the appointment with the doctor had been cancelled, but the defendant went to Timaru, and used the petrol allotted to her. Evidence was given for the prosecution to show that Mrs Poulton had been very concerned about eye trouble suffered by her daughter, who had been attended by a specialist at Tlmaru. She had gone to Timaru to see the doctor on October 20. accompanied by Mrs M. B. Gunn, although she had been advised that the appointment had been cancelled because of the doctor’s Illness. __ For Mrs Poulton, Mr C. S. Thomas submitted that she had been so anxious abbut her child’s health that she determined to attempt to see the doctor at Timaru although the appointment had been cancelled. . . The Magistrate said It had been proved that Mrs Poulton had given as her reason for applying for the petrol, the fact that she had an appointment with a doctor at Timaru. although it was certain that she had no such appointment. Defendant was therefore guilty of the offence. ‘ CASE DISMISSED A charge of keeping liquor for sale on his premises without a licence, which was brought against Frederick William Stevens (Mr C. S. Thomas), was dismissed. , . . Sub-Inspector Paine, who prosecuted, said that on December 9, a police constable had purchased four bottles of beer for Is 6d each at Stevens’s home In Ulster place, Christchurch. During the last three months, one firm of liquor merchants had delivered 1044 bottles of beer to the premises. Complaints had beep received about rowdy parties at Stevens s for the prosecution showed that on December 9 a party of police had visited defendant’s home. A constable went to the house, asked for Stevens, and went to the garage with him. There .he •bought four bottles of beer. Later the police executed a search warrant, and found 45 bottles of beer In *be garage. Defendant had told the police that he had sold beer to neighbours, Hammon, Denver, and Pitcaithly. For Stevens, Mr Thomas submitted that the charge was fantastic. Stevens was a man of unbounded hospitality, and Ms liquor bills exceeded £SOO a year. He was in the habit of “throwing parties, and sometimes he obliged his neighbours with bottles of beer. It was incredible that a man of Stevens’s standing and income should commit such nn offence as that with which he was charged. When he had sold the beer to the constable. he was under the impression that he had come from his neighbour, Denver. FINE IMPOSED John Henry Gilbert was fined £2 for a breach of a prohibition order. BREACH OP ARMS ACT Alfred Henry Shields was ordered to pay costs for delivering. possession of a firearm to a person not authorised to receive It. An order was made for the confiscation of thp revolver concerned in the charge. (Before Messrs W. E. Simes, J.P., and H. J. Bradley, J.P.) BIGAMY ALLEGED William Frank Caddie, aged 34, a labourer, was charged with committing bigamy on August 18, 1944. Detective-Sergeant J. J. Halcrow applied for a remand until February 1. Accused was remanded accordingly, bail being allowed in accused’s own recognisance of £IOO, with one surety of £IOO. He was ordered to report daily to the police. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE A youth aged 17 years, for whom Mr R P. Thompson appeared, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on two charges of indecent assault on males.Ball was allowed in accused’s own recognisance of £SO, with one surety of £SO, and the accused’s name was ordered to be suppressed BREAKING AND ENTERING James Herbert Fraser, aged 20, a labourer (Mr E. S. Bowie), and lan Arthur Hine, aged 21, an airmain (Mr W. R. Lascelles), were jointly charged with breaking and entering the shop of V. C. McAuley. at 630 Colombo street, Christchurch. on January 1, and committing Evidence was given for the prosecution to show that the accused had been in Christchurch on the night of January l. and had consumed liquor. They entered a tobacconist’s shop in Colombo street through an alleyway from Tuam street, whence they obtained entry to the premises of the Albion Football Club. They then broke a panel in the door leading to McAuley's shop. They took a quantity of cigarettes in cartons, tobacco, combs, shaving requisites, other goods, and 5s 5d in money. The accused were seen in North Hagley Park at 12.30 a.m. on January 2, by two police officers. They had deposited some of the stolen property in the long grass in the park, and when apprehended by the police, had In their possession cigarettes and other goods. The value of the goods stolen was £l6 Is IJd. Each accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was renewed. (Before Mr A. A. McLachlan, S.M.) NAME SUPPRESSED A young man, for whom Mr K. G. Archer appeared, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of indecent assault on a male. Accused’s name was ordered- to be suppressed. Bail was renewed.