MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27139, 8 September 1953, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

MONDAY (Before Mr Raymond Ferner, S.M.) PRISON FOR INDECENT ASSAULT Leslie Paul Walsh, aged 46. a spray painter (Mr B. G. Dingwall), appeared for sentence on a charge of indecently assaulting an 11-year-old girl on June 13. He was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment with hard labour. The Magistrate said he was not disposed to leniency in Walsh’s case. Among Walsh’s previous convictions there was one last year for indecent assault on a female. Harry James Pierce, aged 68, a gardener (Mr E. M. Hay), was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour on a charge that on December 16, 1952, he indecently assaulted a girl aged UNLAWFULLY ON PREMISES Dennis Evan Margetts, aged 22, a labourer was convicted and discharged when he pleaded guilty to being found without lawful excuse but in circumstances that did not disclose the intention to commit any other offence in the enclosed yard, of J. B. Mansfield and Sons, Ltd., at 38 Manchester street, on September 5. Sub-Inspector J. C. Fletcher said there did not appear to be anything sinister in Margetts oeing in the yard in the early hours of Saturday morning. BREAKING AND ENTERING Richard Stanley Wratten, aged 33, a labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge that on August 29 he broke and entered the Singing Kettle, at 150 Gloucester street, with intent to commit theft. He was remanded for sentence to September 14, pending a report by the Probation Officer. ’ Sub-Inspector J. C. Fletcher said that the accused was found crouched in a recess in the building at the Gloucester street end of “The Press” lane and was arrested. The Singing Kettle shop had been entered by way of a ventilator but nothing had been stolen. There was a jeweller's shop next door and, on the face of it, the wrong shop might have been entered. Wratten told the police he was very drunk and asked to be charged with drunkenness but the sergeant had other views. Wratten had had some liquor but was not drunk at all. Wratten was an ill man. He had a lung affection. FINED FOR ASSAULT Semen Trefonow, aged 40, a labourer. B leaded guilty to charges that on Septemer 5 he assaulted William James Newton and that he wilfully damaged Newton's clothing to the value of £6. On the first charge he was convicted and fined £2, and on the second charge he was convicted and ordered to pay for the damage. Sub-Inspector J. C. Fletcher said that the accused was a Russian national. He had frequently been put out of one hotel because he went there “to touch people.” On Saturday the barman told him to get out and then went to warn the barman in another bar. The accused must have sensed this, for he struck the barman. There was something of a fight and he tore the barman’s clothing. He had a previous conviction for drinking. MAN FINED £3 Graham John Young, aged 18, a gardener, was fined £3 on a charge of casting offensive matter in Cambridge terrace on September 6. MOTORISTS REMANDED Zamoni Clarence Sullivan, aged 41, a labourer (Mr J. G. Leggat), was further remanded on renewed bail by consent to September 21 on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motorcar in Cranmer square on August 30. lan George Mackay, aged 31, a stock buyer (Mr H. S. Thomas), was remanded , on bail to .September 14 on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car in Cashel street on September 5. lan Charles Edwards, aged 28, a labourer (Mr R. S. D. Twyneham), was remanded on bail to September 14 on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car on the Main West Coast road at West Melton on September 5. Robert Steed Hubbard, aged 54, an engineer (Mr J. G. Leggat), was remanded on bail to September 14 on a charge of being intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car in Hereford street on September 6.