MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25483, 1 May 1948, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) CREDIT BY FRAUD Kenneth Jory Reeves, aged 29, a bricklayer, appeared for sentence on a charge 'that, at Westport, on March 23, he incurred a debt of £2 5s for board and lodging from Stanley Albert Scoltock, thereby obtaining credit by fraud. Detective-Sergeant A. A, Herron said that Reeves was sentenced in the Supreme Court earlier this month to two years’ imprisonment. Reeves told a hotelkeeper at Westport that he was working at the Denniston mine, and would get a special pay on March 25. That was false. He had not worked at the mine. Reeves was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour, the sentence to be concurrent with the sentence he is already serving. TRAFFIC BREACHES Penalties were imposed as follow for breaches of the traffic regulations:— Cycling without a light: William Berry, 20s; Neville Gordon Cumming, 10s; Richard William Dixon, 20s; Hector McDonald, 20s; Samuel Hall Keenan, 30s. Failing to comply with traffic lights: Roland Hugh Bennetts, 10s; Lawrence Eric Pegley, 10s. No warrant of fitness: Sydney George Common, convicted and ordered to pay costs. BROKEN GLASS ON ROAD Ivan Aubrey Purcra was fined £3 for failing to remove broken glass from a road. DRIVING WITHOUT DUE CARE Leonard Rowland Blackburn (Mr R. Twyneham) pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving a motor-car without due care and attention. Sub-Inspector J. Crowley prosecuted. The case followed an accident at the intersection of Queen and Brougham streets, about 11 p.m. on January 31, when Mr Albert Edward Purton and his wife were knocked from their bicycles. Mrs Purton suffered severe head injuries and her left arm had to be amputated. After hearing evidence for the prosecution and the defence, the Magistrate said that the plan and photographs were consistent bn where the collision occurred Mr and Mrs Purton did not cross the bow of the car but must have completed, or practically completed, the turn. They were well into the intersection when the defendant entered into it. He held that the charge had been proved. Blackburn was convicted and fined £5 (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) BREACH OF PROBATION Desmond Patrick Stevens, aged 20, a wood machinist, appeared for sentence on a charge of wilfully damaging a letter box, valued at 10s, thereby committing mischief. He was also charged with a breach of the terms of his probation and pleaded guilty. * On the second charge, he was sentenced. | to three days’ imprisonment. “You wiH' be confined in Paparua prison over the week-end and be released at 9 a.m. on , Monday. You will then understand that j you will have to make a better showing ' than you have done,” said the Magistrate. I On the charge of mischief, Stevens was convicted and ordered to make restitution of 108.