MAGISTRATE’S COURT SEVEN DAYS’ GAOL FOR INTOXICATED MOTORIST

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27626, 5 April 1955, Page 13

MAGISTRATE’S COURT SEVEN DAYS’ GAOL FOR INTOXICATED MOTORIST

Charles Johnson Graham, aged 34 a b " esma " (Mr G S. Brockett), pleaded vc«fo?H llty , ln t t e Magistrate’s Court yesterday to a charge that he drove a M±n C £ r ill Barbadoes street on he was under the influ-

ence of drink. \ A £® C ° n ’ icted by Mr Rex c. j thy ’. ■ S-M ’. and sentenced to seven days imprisonment. His driver’s licence was cancelled and he was disf8 a mo^Uis frOm “btaining another for

Traffic Officer B. W. Watson said he 8 sn r r>m he n a Ols , e n Of a colUsion about 850 p.m. and followed Graham’s car S? b “ motor-cycle because he thought it was the car involved in the collision ?S5?, ugl is U * P , with Graham in Barbadoes street just north of Chester street and waved to him to stop Graham just looked blank and made * flo £t.t° stop, so he sounded the 5E®? twlc ? and then shouted at Graham, who pulled his car up There was a strong smell of liquor on Graham s breath. Witness gave him a teat °h the footpath. He con™he£t hi ? ’“‘‘J to d^ive a motor vehicle and arrested him. There were B° J eoe , nt m arks Of a collision on Graham’s car.

said he examined S raham at the Central Police Station at 9.25 p.m. and considered him unfit rn,whX e ' P” ham told him he had four beers between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. .1 S V ge J ' a, ft and Constable rmhon?? 11 ? 1 sai lL tlie y considered Ot ■ thS d£t« uX‘° drive because Dr. C. L. Sheppard, called by the ?n on n< ?’ Sald ? e Gxam ’ned Graham at a ? d regarded him as not sufficiently alcoholic as to be unfit to drive a car. he had six 9oz glasses dnn 1 ?!? 'J'th workmates in the Caledonian Hotel between 5 p.m. and 6 home , and took two triands with him. He opened two bottles of beer for them, had two small H e l„ himse!f ’ and then had !?2; , Ab J“ ut 7 - 30 P-m. he went into the city to buy working trousers and bet?£Li e returned home he went to the S?w?L G «°¥ e Hotel and bought two hSI. £ u beer He had two small i W *s® ho J el - His e ar was w. aia m< ? el and made a lot of noise. He did not realise that the traffic officer wanted him to stop. Brian Peter McEwan and Jack Edward Bergstrom, both linesmen, gave supporting evidence. The Magistrate said that, on the evi- ,* dce ’ Rf bad _ no dou bt Graham was under the influence of drink at the "rest. It was possible he might have improved when he was examined by Dr. Sheppard. CHARGE DISMISSED <„ A uf ,an ’Jfbose name was ordered not t° be published and who was repretfd.by J ’ B - Weir, pleaded not 7** cil afge of stealing a wristlet waten from the compartment of the H? 1 ?. hostess on the InvercargillChristchurch express. The charge was dismissed. , The Magistrate said that, if it had peen the case of an ordinary man taking liquor and picking up the watch, he would have convicted him. But

there was a background here of many years, where the man had spent periods jin mental hospitals and periods in which he had been helped by members of his family. The evidence satisfied the Court that it wouid. be unsafe to find that the man had a £ ud jy nnnd when he took the watch. The medical evidence was very strong.

THEFT OF OVERCOAT Alexander Swain, aged 57, a labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge that A P rll 1 he stole an overcoat, valued of £3 the property of William Wendelken. • *. • - He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months ii called upon and warned that he was to continue to stay with the Salvation Army authorities. Detective-Sergeant A. B. Tate said that Swam wap seen to take the overcoat from a parked car. REMANDED Llewellyn Herbert Beynon, aged 40, a shopkeeper (Dr. A. L. Haslam), was remanded to May 2 on charges that he assaulted Gladys Enid Allen Beynon on March 26; that he used indecent language in Cashel street on March 27; and that he used an unlighted motor-truck on March 271 He was allowed bail in his own recognisance of £lOO. Frederick Charles Price,’ aged 47, a contractor (Mr J. G. Leggat), was remanded on bail to May 2 on a charge that he drove a motor-car in Fitzgerald avenue on March 19 while he was under the influence of drink. William Redmond Guthrie, aged 23, a storeman, and George James Peter Cosgrove, aged 29, a labourer (Mr H. W. Hunter), were further remanded on renewed bail to April 7 on a charge that on March 26 they assaulted Raymond Augustus Blythe with intent to rob him.

Raymond Stewart Hillgrove, aged 21, a labourer (Mr B. J. Drake), was remanded to April 7 on a charge that on April 1, he unlawfully converted to his own use a motor-car, valued at £5OO. the property of some person unknown. He was allowed bail in his own recomiisance of £5O and one surety of £lOO on condition that he reports daily to the police. George Vernon Dickinson, aged 26, a labourer (Mr B. McClelland), was remanded to May 2 on a charge that He assaulted Douglas Arthur Edward George Cooper on March 28. He was allowed bail in his own recognisance of £5O and ‘bne surety ot £5O.

Thomas Andrew Richard James, aged 21, a truck driver (Mr J. E. Millar), was remanded on bail to April 18 on a charge that he drove a motor-cycle in Moorhouse avenue on April 2 while he was under the influence of drink.

Martin John Howard, aged 23, a drainlayer, was remanded on bail to April 18 on a charge that he drove a motor-truck in Selwyn street on April 2 while he was under the influence of drink.

A 17-year-old youth, whose name was ordered not to be published meantime, was remanded on bail to April 7 on a charge-4hfrt he obtained £lO by a false pretence at Wellington on January 25.