MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25272, 26 August 1947, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

MONDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) IMPRISONMENT

’I am looking forward to starting a new life and would like you to treat both charges as leniently as possible,” said Thomas John Pickering, a carpenter, aged 33, who pleaded guilty to charges of obtaining credit by fraud on June 20 by incurring a debt or liability for £3 ss, with William Douglas Gadd, licensee of the Club Hotel, Westport, and travelling between Auckland and Wellington by railway on February 18 without paying a fare. Detective-Sergeant A. A. Herron said that accused was at present serving a prison sentence. He told the licensee of the hotel that he was having his bank account transferred, and had obtained board and lodging. He had no bank account. Pickering explained that he had lost most of his money at poker with Gadd. Because of illness and the prison term, he had been unable to pay the outstanding railway fare. He was sentenced to one month’s inn- | prisonment with hard labour on the first ■ charge, and was convicted and discharged on the second. REMANDED John Albert Arthur, a painter, aged 27, (Mr K. J. McMenamin), was remanded until September 1 on a charge of breaking and entering the shop of Albert Victor Caulfield, 156 A Madras street, on or about August 14, and stealing tobacco, cigarettes, and money, ‘of a total value of £25, and a cheque for £l6 12s 6d, the property of Caulfield. Detective-Sergeant Herron said that Arthur had been arrested in Dunedin and further inquiries were being made. Bail was fixed at £lOO and one surety of £lOO, on condition that accused reported daily to the police. Ronald Keith McGrath, a bootmaker, aged 27, of no fixed abode, was remanded until September 1 on charges of assaulting George Walter Alty, a constable, in the execution of his duty on August 23, and with behaving in a disorderly manner while drunk in a public place. Two other men, Raa Vaughan Thomson, a salesman, aged 31 (Mr R. A. Young), and Ralph Vihcent Mora, alias Moea, a war pensioner, aged 31 (Mr Young), were remanded until September 1 on charges of behaving in a disorderly manner in Oxford terrace on August 23. Bail was fixed at £2O and one surety of £2O in each case. George Carlisle Lamb, who pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing, on August 23, 13 bottles of beer valued at fss 6d, the property of the Perpetual Trustees and Agency Company, Ltd., was remanded to appear on August 28. Accused was granted bail at £2O and one surety of £2O. on condition that he report daily to the police. NAME SUPPRESSED A man whose name was ordered to be suppressed in the meantime was remanded until August 29 on a theft charge. Bail was fixed at £2O.