MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25248, 29 July 1947, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

0 MONDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) ADMITTED TO PROBATION “I want to let you know that it is only in very exceptional circumstances that car thieves and bicycle thieves are not sent straight to prison.’ said the Magistrate in admitting Noel David Thompson, a radio mechanic, aged 24, to probation for two years. Thompson, who appeared for sentence on charges of stealin, on July 6, a car battery, pump, and car jack of a total value of £4 10s, the property of Jules George Ramon, and stealing a bicycle valued at £5, on or about January 9. the property of a person or persons unknown, was told by the Magistrate that it would go hard with him if he appeared in Court again on any similar charge. A condition that Thompson take out a prohibition order against himself and observe it for two years, was made. (Before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M.) REMANDS GRANTED

Desmond Patrick Egan, an art dyer, aged 23, was remanded until August 7 on a charge of receiving on July 18, from Patrick Holmes, the sum of £3 in money and a man’s hat, of a total value of £4, the property of Hugh V. Baird, knowing that they had been obtained dishonestly. Bail was fixed at £lOO and one surety of £5O, on condition that accused reported daily to the police. On a charge of obtaining £lO from Lawrence Haggie on November 25, 1946, at Gisborne, with intent to defraud by purporting to be a representative of the Michelin Tyre Company, arid that he had authority to sell motor-car tyres, Melville Francis Fry, a salesman, aged 36, was remanded to appear on Thursday. Stanley Ernest Mee, a labourer, aged 26. and Richard Norris Ropata Thomas, a driver, aged 24 years, were jointly charged with the conversion of a motor-car valued at £165, the property of Rex Kevin Whitnail.

On the application of Senior-Sergeant G. H. L. Holt, they were remanded until next Monday, bail being fixed at £lOO in each case, and one surety of £lOO. A remand for a week was granted in the case of John Martin Shortall, a painter, aged 23 (Mr E. M. Hay), and Frederick Morton Alexander, aged 21, an apprentice fitter (Mr J. K. Moloney), who were charged with stealing, at Islington, on or about July 26, a tin containing two gallons of motor spirits, a torch, a tyre gauge, and a tyre repair outfit of a total value of £1 12s 3d, the property of Daniel G. O’Connor. Bail was fixed at £5O each, a condition being made that accused report daily to the police.