MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25913, 20 September 1949, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

MONDAY (Before Mr Rex. C. Abernethy, S.M.) BOOKMAKER FINED £l5O Ernest Alfred George Flint, aged 41, a clerk (Mr J. K. Moloney), pleaded guilty to a charge that on September 17 he carried on the business of a bookmaker. Detective-Sergeant A. B. Tate said that detectives went to Flint’s residence about noon on Saturday and found him accepting bets over the telephone. Bets to the amount of £lB4 had been taken before the detectives arrived, and £72 was taken j while they were there. Flint admitted carrying on the business. He said it was his own and he had taken it over from someone else. The Magistrate warned Flint that if he came before the Court again he ran the risk of imprisonment. Flint was convicted and fined £l5O. FINED FOR DRUNKENNESS Frederick John Wormold, aged 56, a jockey and trainer, pleaded guilty to a charge that, on September 17, he was found drunk in Hereford street, having been twice previously convicted of a similar offence within the last six months. He was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment. Dorothy Eilleen Pearl Neill, aged 44, pleaded guilty to a charge that on September 17 she was found drunk in Cathedral square, having been twice previously convicted of a similar offence within the last six months. She was fined £2, in default four days’ imprisonment. REMANDED FOR SENTENCE Richard Llewellyn Claridge, aged 43, a salesman and cook, pleaded guilty to fivecharges of obtaining money by false pretences at Opotiki on October 1, 1948. The charges were that, with intent to defraud, he obtained £4 from Steve Piacun by falsely representing that he was the representative of Whitcoinbe and Tombs. Ltd., Christchurch; that he obtained £4 4s from George Herbert Cumming by falsely representing that he was the representative of the Gisborne Printing Company; that he obtained £4 4s from Erian Morrison by falsely representing that he was a company representative; that he obtained £4 4s from Fred Wrigley by falsely representing that he was a company representative; and that he obtained £4 4s from Kenneth Newell by falsely representing that he was a company representative. Claridge also pleaded guilty to a charge that, on July 27. 1949, he stole two radios, valued at £39 i 18s, the property of Thomas Bell, Valley i road, Auckland. j Detective-Sergeant A. B. Tate said that | Claridge was convicted last year on :!0 | charges and was sentenced to nine [ months’ imprisonment. The present five charges of false pretences were part of that same series, when the accused went round representing that he was taking orders for calendars, which was not true. | His sentence ended in July of this year, and the accused went to Auckland. He ! was given radios to sell, but the owner had seen no more of the accused or the radios since then. The accused said the i radios went astray while he was drink- ; ing in a hotel. Claridge was remanded to Tuesday for i sentence. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Eight charges of breaking and entering and committing theft and breaking and entering with intent to commit theft, were brought against three youths, Karl Albert Leslie Luff, aged 22, a factory hand, lan Logan Brash, aged 18. a labourer, and Norman lan Wootton, aged 17, a farmhand. Wootton and Brash »were jointly charged with entering the shop of Anderson Brothers. Ltd., Currie’s road, on April 26, and commiting theft; with break i ing and entering the premises of the* Wheat Committee, on May 27, and committing theft; with breaking and enterin-; the premises of Mair and Company, Madras street, on May 28, and commiti ting theft; with breaking and entering the premises of the Wheat Committee, on May 11, and committing theft. Wootton and Brash were also charged with breakins and entering the premises of Weeks, Ltd., at 211 Tuam street, on May 4. and committing theft. Luff and Brash were jointly charged with breaking and entering the premises of the Wheat Committee on July 19. and stealing £1 2s. a pair of gloves, and a wallet, of a total value of £3, the property of William Edward Hannah and others, and with breaking and entering the shop of Anderson Brothers, Ltd., at Currie’s road, on July 21, with intent to commit theft. Dr. A. L. Haslam appeared for Brash, and Mr O. J. Cooke for Wootton. Evidence was given by 10 witnesses to show that among the articles stolen bv the accused were chocolate, cigarettes, tobacco, tea towels, fountain pens, and propelling pencils, luggage tags, filing cabinet keys, surgical dressings, a wallet containing £l. two packs of playing cards, swimming suit samples, a pair of gloves, roller towels, a hot water bottle, and a sum of money totalling about £9 16s, and a small undisclosed sum. Property stolen amounted to about £3B Ils. and the property recovered amounted to about £lO. Each of the accused pleaded guilty to all charges against him, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. *