Two Years In Gaol For Breaking And Entering

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27919, 16 March 1956, Page 3

Two Years In Gaol For Breaking And Entering

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

lan Robertson Mclntosh, aged 26. a labourer, who had previously pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering the Lake Coleridge post office on February 11 and committing theft, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment by Mr L. N. Ritchie. S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Mr B. McClelland, who represented the accused, said that Mclntosh comImitted his crimes in the past after he had been drinking. In the present instance the crime was not planned ahead but was evolved when Mclntosh met three other men in the bar of a hotel. Mclntosh had a bad record but he kept out of trouble while he lived at home and his father thought he still could control him. Counsel asked the Court to give Mclntosh one last chance to give up his life of crime. “Mclntosh, this is your sixteenth conviction,” said the Magistrate. “You have had the benefit of probation at least twice; you have had a deferred sentence; you have been fined; and you have served a term of reformative detention—all to no purpose. The Probation Officer points out that you are eligible for corrective training; but he does not recommend it as he thinks you are not a fit and proper subject for it. I concur. There is only one thing to do with you.” PROBATION FOR THEFT Barry Allen Hailwood, aged 21 (Mr N. G. Hattaway), pleaded not guilty to a charge that between November 10 and January 6 he stole money and goods, valued at £4 ss, the property of Adriannes Du Buf. He was convicted and admitted to probation for one year and ordered to make restitution of £4. Detective-Sergeant G. C. Urquhart said that Du Buf had a bach at the rear of a house in Kipling street and the door was never locked. He was injured at work on November 10 and was in hospital until January 6. When he returned to his bach he found that two jars containing sixpences and threepences were missing. A towel also was missing. The two jars, empty, and the towel were found in a nearby bach rented by the accused. He was interviewed at Reefton and said he and some friends were playing cards in his bach one evening after Christmas. He ran out of small change and took the money from Du Buf’s bach but he intended to return it. He said he borrowed the towel to go for a swim and was going to return it after he had washed it.

The Magistrate said h.e did not believe Hailwood’s story that he did not intend to steal the money. He had had plenty of opportunity to return it if ’>e had meant to do so. THEFT OF RADIO Robert Donaldson Mackie, aged 23. a waiter, appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing a radio, valued at £33 10s, the property of Michael Rowland.

He was convicted and admitted to probation for two years, a special condition being that he makes restitution of £7 to the second-hand dealer. THEFT ADMITTED Stanley Alfred Allen Mclntosh, aged 22, a farmhand (Mr B. J. Drake), pleaded guilty to a charge that on March 2 he stole a razor, a shaving brush and £2 7s 6d in money, the property of Raymond William Collier.

He was remanded on bail to March 22 for sentence pending a report by the Probation Officer. B CONVERTED MOTOR-CYCLE ” Two 17-y ear-old youths, whose names were ordered not to be published meantime, and who were represented by Mr H. W. Hunter and Mr J. B. Stringer respectively, pleaded guilty to unlawfully converting a motor-cycle valued at £lOO. The case was adjourned to March 22 for sentence pending reports by the Probation Officer. FORGER if AND FALSE PRETENCES Basil Joseph Gould, aged 43, a carpenter, pleaded guilty to nine charges of obtaining money by false pretences, to two charges of obtaining credit by fraud, to one of forgery and to one of driving a motor-car when he cid not have a driver’s licence. Mr H. S. Thomas appeared for Gould, who was remanded to March 22 for sentence and a report from the Probation Officer.

Detective-Sergeant G. S. Urquhart said that early in February accused stayed with his brother at Timaru and from him he took a cheque book. Accused immediately embarked on a j career of issuing valueless cheques, I the first being for £5 when he received from McFarlane and Company, Ltd., of Timaru. fruit valued at 14s, receiving £4 6s in money. Next he received from J. Ballantyne and Company, Ltd.. £4 6s 8d worth of goods and £5 13s 4d when he tendered a cheque for £lO. He bought liquor from Richard Armstrong worth £9 6s, receiving £5 14s from a £l5 cheque, and on February 27 he came to Christchurch and booked in at the Central 1 Hotel, where he paid his board with a valueless cheque for £4 5s and received £5 in money from the licensee. Expressing a wish to buy a motorcar accused was recommended to Chester Motors. Ltd., which he visited on February 28, inspected some cars, but left saying he wanted to have, a good look round before making a decision. said Detective-Sergeant Urquhart. On the following day he returned, made his choice and took possession of a car, tendering in payment a cheque for £785. He later had a break-down with his car at Darfield and hired a taxi, the property of i Leicester Allen Wentwood. tendering i the driver a cheque for £lO in payment of his fare of £5 and telling the driver to “keep the change.” I Accused had issued valueless cheques for a total of £854 ss. receiving goods and money in exchange. On February 18 Gould had committed forgery when he altered a motor-driver’s licence issued by the Timaru City Council, said Detective Sergeant Urquhart. LICENSING CHARGES Roy William Jackman, licensee of the Railway Hotel, Doyleston, for whom Mr D. R. Fountain appeared, was fined £lO for opening his premises after hours for the sale of liquor on January 21. For being found on the licensed premises of the hotel after hours Edward Mclntyre, Eleanor Mclntyre, Neal Iggo. Noeline Iggo, Ronald Noel Taylor. Shona Taylor, Isabella Ford and Hugh McLenaghan were each fined £2.

Doreen Mavis Lee and Hilda Jane Bannan were each fined £2 for being on the licensed premises of the Ellesmere Arms Hotel after hours on January 21. Thomas Campbell was fined £2 for being on the premises of the Yfildhurst Hotel after hours on November 27.

USED INSULTING WORDS j Barry Arnold Colenso, a soldier, pleaded guilty to charges that on .January 3 he failed to stop his motorcycle when signalled by a constable, that he used insulting words, had no rear red light on his motor-cycle, and : did not have a warrant of fitness, i He was fined £3, £2. £l, and 10s on each charge respectively. Sub-Inspector C. H. Reardon said that a constable saw Colenso on a motor-cycle, with a pillion-passenger, driving too fast through the crowd leaving the Caledonian Hall about five minutes after midnight. The constable signalled him to stop but he 'took no notice. Later the constable I saw Colenso driving across the 'Colombo street fridge and signalled jwith his torch X®r Colenso to stop.

Colenso ignored that and shouted the insulting words stated in the charge. FAILED TO ATTEND PARADES For failing to attend military parades David Frederick John Lingham was fined £3, £5 and £5. and for failing to notify a change of address he was fined £2. William Rex Andrews was fined £3; Trevor James Miller, £3. £5 and £3; and Mervyn Francis Webb. £3 and £3. all for failing to attend military parades. NO PERMIT FOR RIFLE Trevor William Woodham was fined £2 for procuring possession of a .22 rifle without a permit and Donald Alister 1 Woodham and Lester Jack Burgess were each fined £2 for delivering possession of a .22 rifle without a permit. NO PERMIT FOR BLASTING George Clark was fined £3 for carrying out .blasting operations without obtain’ng a permit. LIT FIRE CLOSE TO BUILDING Annette Mary Eleanor Clifford was fined £5 for lighting a fire in the open within 30 feet of a building. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr Rex C. Abernethy, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. On judgment summonses Norman Bruce was ordered to pay D. A. McClintock £l2O forthwith, in default three months’ imprisonment; J. W. Vivian was ordered to pay Vibrapac Blocks, Ltd., £227 Ils forthwith, in default three . months’ imprisonment, the warrant to be supended as long as defendant pays £2 a week; C. Worters was ordered to pay the Commissioner of Inland Revenue £l7 9s 3d forthwith, in default 18 days’ imprisonment, the warrant to be suspended as long as defendant pays £2 a week; J. F. Nelson was ordered to pay Claude Neon Lights of New Zealand, Ltd.. £32 6s forthwith, in default 33 days’ imprisonment; M. J. Howard was ordered to pay Charles Stewart Thomas, Ralph Patrick Thompson and Ewart Morell Hay £25 19s forthwith, in default 26 days’ imprisonment; Agnes Ellen Cassidy was ordered to pay Beath and Company, Ltd., £7 9s forthwith, in default eight days’ imprisonment; H. V. Ray was ordered to pay Waimak Shingle and Sand, Ltd., £9 17s 4d forthwith, in default 10 days’ imprisonment; Thomas Henry Allen Goulding was ordered to pay William Alfred Pickup £29 12s 6d forthwith, in default 30 days’ imprisonment. BREACH OF AWARD The Inspector of Awards proceeded against William Ryan, John Ryan and Bernard Ryan, trading as Ryan Brothers, contractors, for two breaches of the Horse Drivers’ Award by failing to pay two drivers the prescribed rates of wages for overtime in the period August 3, 1955. to October 20, 1955, and June 19, 1955, to July 29, 1955, respectively. A penalty of £lO was sought in each instance. Mr R. J. Weir, of the Labour Department. appeared for the Inspector of Awards, and Ryan Brothers were represented by Mr W. F. Brown. The Magistrate gave judgment for the plaintiff against Ryan Brothers for a penalty of £5 in each of the two cases.