MAGISTRATES COURT

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25811, 24 May 1949, Page 7

MAGISTRATES COURT

MONDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner. S.M.) INTOXICATED DRIVER Martin Ridley Pearson (Mr W. R. Lascelles), aged 39, pleaded guilty to a charge of being intoxicated when in charge of a motor-car in Papanui road on Saturday. Sub-Inspector G. H. L. Helt said the accused, when driving his car. had collided with a tramcar. Pearson was fined £lO. his licence was cancelled, and he was prohibited from holding one for a period of 12 months. FIGHTING IN PUBLIC PLACE Dudley Thomas Sumner, aged 29. a labourer, and Richard Thomas Carroll, aged 52. a labourer, who pleaded guilty to- charges of fighting in a public place (Chester’ street) on May 21, were eaen fined £2. Sub-Inspector Holt said apparently the two men were neighbours and good friends. On Saturday each had drunk a considerable quantity of "fighting beer” and had decided to fight out whether a good little man was better than a good big man. In imposing the fines the Magistrate said: “It seems to have been an even, go." SUSPENDED SENTENCE Norman Donkin, aged 29, a clerk (Dr. A. L. Haslam), was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence in 12 months if called on, on a charge of theit. Accused, who pleaded guilty, was charged witn tiie theit oi 10s, the property of Leonard Avery Wrenn. THEFT OF CRATES Jaga Go£ai <Mr J. K. Moloney), aged 29, a bottie-dealer, was fined £o tor stealing eight crates valued at 245, the pioperty of Associated Bottle-dealers, of Christchurch. COMMUTED FOR SENTENCE Pleading guilty to four charges of attempting to break and enter premises with intent to commit crimes, and one. charge of breaking and entering to commit theit, John’ Conrad Norman, a labourer, aged 27, and Ronald Charles O'Connor, aged 20, a trucK-driver (Mr J. K. Moloney), were committed to the Supreme Court ior sentence. Norman also pleaded guilty to charges of stealing a sleeping bag valued at £1 10s, the property of J. M. Heywood, Ltd.; two bicycles valued at £3 and £9 respectively, and a jemmy bar, valued at £1 2s bd. On these charges Norman was dealt with summarily by the Magistrate, who remanded him ior sentence to a date I after accused had been sentenced m thSupreme Court on the charges of attempting to break and enter premises. The charges of attempted breaking and entering concerned business premises in Papanui and Bryndwr, said Detective-Ser-geant A. B. Tate, who prosecuted. They were the premises of Messrs Roberts and Tullock, 447 Papanui road; the boot repair shop of Ronald Barr, 48 Strowan road; Madden’s coalyard, 13 Papanui road; a garage and service station owned -by Albert Stowell at the corner of Strowan and Norman’s roads; and the Strowan Beauty Salon at the corner of Strowan and Norman’s roads. Attempts had been made to break and enter all these premises, a jemmy having been used in each case, said DetectiveSergeant Tate. The only .premises the accused entered was the beauty salon, where a sum of money, between 10s and £l, was stolen. Evidence was given by the proprietors of the business premises. Constable Allan Bernard Brown said that both accused had admitted the offences.