MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28896, 16 May 1959, Page 15

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr A. P. Blair, S.M.) STRUCK PARKED CAR Seeing a thermos flask in his car fall over, Richard Dennis Harty bent down to pick it up but the car moved off the road and struck a correctly parked: car—pushing it across a gutter I into a fence, said Sergeant V. F. \ Townshend. Pleading guilty to a charge df driving without due care and attention in Bristol street on < April 11, Harty said the sergeant’s evidence was correct and added that the flask fell over as the car turned a corner. Both cars were badly damaged ; said Sergeant Townshend. ‘‘That was quite a natural thing to do and this case of driving without due care and attention is not as bad as others I have heard this morning,’’ said the Magistrate, convicting Harty and imposing a fine of £3. OTHER TRAFFIC CASES In other traffic prosecutions brought by the police, the following persons were convicted and fined as follows (Court costs being an additional £1 10s on each charge):— Failing to give way: Douglas! Leigh Matthew Worner, £5: lan William Burgess £5: Marion Davidson Gardner, £5; • Ernest Percival Geeves. £5: William Ernest Honey will. £5; Robert .John Labes. £2: Gary Leslie Richard McMeekcn. £5; Walter Henry Momo. £5; Leonard Moyle Voller, £5. No warrant of fitness: Robert Cecil Ayers. £1: Lewis Ronald Clarke. £1 10s: William Raymond Inwood. £1 10s: Richard James Mclntyre. £1: Keith Alan Perkips. 10s; Gordon Cyril Richards. £2: Maurice Sydney Smith. £l. Failing to stop at compulsory stop: Garry Neville McCaulay. £3. Parking in prohibited area: John Thailand McKetterick, £3. Opening car door so as to cause injury: Alfred Thomas Ellison

Miller, £l. Driving without due care and attention: Brian Maurice Walker. £4: Melvin Robert Dunn, £5; Raymond Arthur Edwards. £5. FOUND DRUNK Eric James Davidson pleaded guilty to a charge of being found drunk in Stanmore road on May 14, having one previous conviction within the last six months. He was fined £2. in default one day’s imprisonment. (Before Mr N. M. Izard, S.M.) CHARGED DISMISSED A charge of driving without due care and attention against lan Henry Gardner, aged 30. a railways surfaceman, was dismissed. Represented by Mr K. S. Hadfield Gardner pleaded not guilty. Sergeant T. A. A. Marson said that Gardner stopped his car at a compulsory stop at the corner of Annex road and Blenheim road and then turned right into Blenheim road. He followed behind another car on Blenheim road and started to overtake. ‘‘We allege that he cut in in

front of the other car after ’ passing,” said Sergeant Marson. Gardner, in evidence, said the other car was swaying on the road and as he went to pass it ’ the driver accelerated. ”The next thing I knew the back of my car went from under me,” he said. “As there is some considerable I doubt to what happened I do I not think it would be right to ■ convict him.” said the Magistrate . dismissing the charge. • (Before E. A.' Lee, S.M.) ’ ONE MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT ' Appearing for sentence on a charge of attempting to breax t and enter a shop in St. Asaph L street, on May 3, Clifford BarnJ don, aged 47, a workman, and Eric John Stephens, aged 35, a workman, were sentenced to one -I month’s imprisonment. CORRECTION 1 The Magistrate who heard the t charge against Colin Malcolm r Hardaker, aged 20, a motor i mechanic, of wilfully obstructing a the police in the execution of - their duty on Thursday was Mr n N. M. Izard, S.M.. and not Mr A. ;. P. Blair, S.M.. as reported. The n I charge was dismissed.