MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26261, 4 November 1950, Page 2

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (pefore Mr F. F. Reid, S.M.) HARBOURING SON Violet Beatrice Stephen, a married woman, of 12 Southampton street (Mr D. J. Hewitt) was convicted and discharged after pleading not guilty to harbouring her son, Alfred Leonard. Stephen, who had escaped from an Institution under the Child welfare Act, the Boys' Home in

The police said that constables had called at Mrs Stephen’s home several times on September 9, and had been told that the boy for whom they were looking was not there. About 7 p.m. that evening the boy was caught leaving the bouse by a rear window. LEVEL-CROSSING ACCIDENT William Percy Samuel Line (Mr W. K. L. Dougall) was convicted and discharged upon pleading guilty to a charge of attempting to cross a railway line when it was not clear. Mr Dougall said that the defendant's car had not been insured, and was a total loss, his wife was still in hospital, and his child had only just returned from hospital. The Magistrate said that the defendant was not likely to offend again. OBSTRUCTING PUBLIC PLACE Douglas Alien, David Dickie, and Eric Dickie were each fined 20s on charges of obstiucting a public place with bicycles. Sub-Inspector J. J. Kearns said the defendants had parked their bicycles at the northern, entrance to Cathedral square in euch a way that traffic had to pull out to the middle of the road to pass them. FINED FOR DRUNKENNESS Phillip Arthur Lampwright, aged 27. a soldier and labourer, was fined £2 for being drunk in Hereford street on November 2, having been convicted of a similar offence within the previous six months. DRIVING WITHOUT DUE CARE Roy Lovell Taylor (Mr T. West) was fined £4 for driving without due care and attention. He pleaded guilty. The charge was laid after the defendant's truck struck a light pylon, part of the centennial decorations, at the corner of Manchester street and Moorhouse avenue

REMANDED Daniel James Gorman, 29, a clerk (Mi G. C. Sandston) was remanded to appear in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland on November 10 to answer charges of stealing • suit of clothes valued at £l6. the property of Carley Welsh, and of failing to comply with the terms of his release on bail. Samuel Jones, 42. a labourer and salesman, was remanded to appear on November 6 on a charge of stealing a bicycle Valued at £l9. the property of William Ernest Gibbons. The accused pleaded not guilty. Another charge of being in possession of tickets believed to be used in an illegal lottery was adjourned to the same date upon the accused pleading guilty. Bai! was renewed upon the same

Ernest Walter Healey, 39. a motor engineer, was remanded to November 9 on a charge of obtaining goods valued at £3 13s 4d and £3 Is 8d in money from Keith Edward Smith by falsely representing that a cheque for £6 15s was a good and valid one.

Warren James Thomas, aged 18, a warehouseman (Mr E. B. €. Taylor), was remanded to appear on November 8 on a charge ot .tearing <1 ss, the property of Note Valery. Bail wat allowed In the accuied’s own recognisance ot £25 and one aurety ot £25, upon the condition that the accused reports daily to the police. z Frank Farrell, aged 51. a manager (Mr R. W. Edgely), was remanded to November 8 on a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor-car in Riccarton road on November 2. Bail was allowed in the accused’s own recognisance of £2O. Traffic Offences Penalties were imposed as follows in traffic cases brought by the police:— ’ Driving unlighted motor-car at night: Ronald Paviell, £?. Riding unlighted bicycle at night: Ronald Leslie Payne. 20s. No warrant of fitness: Robert Ernest Kennedy, 10s. Falling to give way to traffic approaching from the right: William Kent, £3. Driving without due cara and attention: Nola Gertrude Lorimer, £2; Robert Mayne, £2; Raymond George Trotter, £4; William Waddell. £3; Aubrey Edward Gillespie, £4; Kenneth Brian Greaves, £2. (Before Mr/Raymond Ferner, S.M.) FARMER REMANDED Albert Lincoln Wakelin, aged 46. a farmer (Mr T. T. West), appeared on a charge that, on October 18, he committed rape. On the application of Detective-Ser-geant E. G. Ward, he was remanded to appear on November 13. He was allowed bail in his own recognisance of £2OO and one surety of £2OO, conditional on his reporting daily to the police. (Before Mr R. M. Grant, S.M.) ORDER FOR POSSESSION The Magistrate made an order for possession within 14 days of premises at 16 Leeds street in favour of Julia Agpes McRae, a married woman (Mr p. P. J. Amodeo), against Herbert Wilsby Close (Mr J. R. L. Campbell). The time allowed would be shortened, he said, if any further improper conduct on the part of the defendant and Ms family was reported.