Magisrtate's Court For Observation After Threat To Kill Detective

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30094, 30 March 1963, Page 21

Magisrtate's Court For Observation After Threat To Kill Detective

Police had no doubts that Wayne Maurice Carstairs was, serious when he threatened: to kill Detective S. J. Main,’ Mr A. P. Blair. S.M.. was told! in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Detective-Sergeant J. P. Crozier said that Carstairs had just appeared m court i and was getting into the police van when he told Detective Main: “The next tune we meet, Mr Main. I will have a little gun in my hand and I will shoot you through the head.” Pleading guilty to a charge of threatening to kill on March 13, Carstairs (Mr R. G. Blunt) was remanded to the Sunnyside Hospital to April 26 for observation. After the first threat, Carstairs was warned that he could be charged, DetectiveSergeant Crozier said. Carstairs replied: “I don't care how many charges you put against me. If I get 10 years I will get you when 1 get out.”

Police within hearing had no doubt that the threats were real, Detective-Sergeant Crozier said. Carstairs was separated from his wife and was unemployed. He had a criminal history that included violence. Mr Blunt said that he was partly to blame for Carstairs’s mood at the time, for Carstairs had been under the impression that he would get bail. What Carstairs did fitted in with his apparent persecution complex. TWO YEARS’ GAOL

Saying that the accused was a complete failure while on probation. the Magistrate sentencea Edward Noel Toomey, aged 21. unemployed, to two years' imprisonment when he appeared on charges of false pretences and obtaining credit by fraud. Toomey pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining credit by fraud at Invercargill on January 19. Detective-Sergeant Crozier said that Toomey hired a taxi to take him from Invercargill to Alexandra. The fare was £l4 19s. On arrival Toomey said he did not have the money but would post a cheque. No cheque had been received by the taxi-driver. Toomey was also sentenced on charges on which he had previously been placed on probation at Invercargill. They involved obtaining board in several hotels and leaving without paying, and purchasing a car and failing to pay the full price. On a charge of being a rogue and vagabond at Wyndham, on which he was convicted last week, he was sentenced to one month’s goal, the terms to be concurrent.

FALSE STATEMENTS Holding that Elizabeth Clayton, aged 65 a pensioner, wilfully made false statements to the Social Security Department for sickness benefits, the Magistrate convicted her and ordered her to make restitution of £lO2 19s 2d „ „ The accused {Mr R. L. Kerri, was charged with w’ilfully making false statements on September 23, 1958, and March 12, 1959 She pleaded not guilty. Evidence was given that the accused applied for a sickness benefit in 1958. She said she had no income and was destitute. As a result of the application she was paid £3 as a week, which was later increased to £4 10s a week. In March. 1959. she applied for a renewal of the benefit, again stating that her income wanil. In 1962 she applied for an old age pension, and said that she received £2O a month maintenance from her husband in England The accused said she thought she did not need to declare the £2O a month when applying for the sickness benefit, as it was her own money and It came from England The Magistrate said it seemed the accused had something to conceal when she made the claims and she had a guilty mind

GAOL FOR BURGLARIES "You have already had prettywell every type of punishment there is . . . you were out of gaol only a month when you committed these burglaries, said the Magistrate when sentencing Hikitoia Matenga. aged 25 a labourer (Mr G D. G Bailey), to two years’ imprisonment on each of three charges of burglary on March 3. the terms to be concurrent SOLD STOLEN RADIOS Efforts to find a “mystery man" who supplied stolen radios to a youth had failed but he could exist. DetectiveSergeant Crozier said Wayne David Bert, aged 17. told police he had met this man twiceonce to collect stolen goods, and once to pay him £5O. DetectiveSergeant Crozier said Beri (Mr A Hearn) pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods He was convicted and remanded in custody to April 5 for sentence. The stolen goods were pan of £727 2s 3d worth of property stolen from two electrical businesses in the city, Detec-tive-Sergeant Crozier said After meeting the mystery man in a car, Ben went to Wellington where he sold ten transistor radios for £B5 On his return to Christchurch, he was arrested at a billiards saloon Since coming out of a Borstal institution last year. Bert had not worked RECEIVING William Robert Moffatt, aged 28, a workman, was convicted of receiving three stolen radios, valued at £99 17s 6d. on February 16. He was remanded in custody to April 5 for sentence Moffatt, who was represented by Mr G. W Rountree, pleaded guilty Detective-Sergeant Crozier said that five transistor radios were stolen in a smash-and-grab raid on Hughes Radios Ltd. Three of the radios were recovered, and Moffatt admitted to the police that he had sold them to friends. Moffatt said he had bought the radios from a friend for £25 ASSAULT Joseph Carl Taipata. aged 26 (Mr W. A Wilson), pleaded guilty to assaulting Marlene Mary Stewart on March 21. and was remanded on bail to April 5 for sentence Detective-Sergeant Crozier said that Mrs Stewart complained to the police that she had been assaulted by a strange man. She said she heard a voice outside her home about 7 p m and opened the door Taipata was there, but she could not understand what he was saying Taipata tried to push past her. and when she went inside to turn off a tap. he followed her. took her by the hair and tried to kiss her told ,he Police that he had been Invited to the house and wanted to wa:t for Crozier °aaicl. U rkn,^ Fb t L \ ON PREMISES Frederick Falloon fMr r a 'w * mar| ager cia G U R was fined 10 when he pleaded guiltv to a charge of being unlawfully on enclosed premises on March

Detective - Sergeant Crozier »aid the police found Falloon standing in the front doorway

of a house at 55 Moorhouse avenue at 516 a.m. Falloon, could give no reason for being on the premises. He was very dazed and appeared to have, been drinking heavily and fallen Mr Lascelles said that Falloon had drunk heavily at a party. He could not remember much of what happened after the party but apparently fell into some roadworks. There was no sinister intent on Falloon’s part. ASSAULTED GIRL Pleading guilty to assaulting a seven-year-old girl in Middle-Lincoln road on March 18. Paul Ramsay Wilson, aged 18. a workman, was remanded for a month to the Sunnyside Hospital for observation. Detective - Sergeant Crozier said the complaint was made by a schoolteacher who picked up ' the girl and her sister in his j car soon after the assault. Wilson had placed his arm round the older sister and kissed her. Mr M J Glue applied for ; the remand. He said there was nothing sexual in the assault. However, it appeared that Wilson was socially irresponsible OBSCENE EXPOSURE

Saying that if the accused offended again he would have to be put where he could not offend, the Magistrate placed Denis Raymond Pockson. aged 17. a workman (Mr L. G. Holder), on probation for two years when he appeared for sentence on a charge of obscene exposure at Woolston Park on February 28 Pockson was ordered to take medical treatment as directed by the probation officer and to pay £lO towards the cost of the prosecution. Suppression of name was refused. STOLE HUB CAP

Charged with stealing a hub cap w'orth 15s on January 11. Warren Reynish, aged 20. a driver, was fined £5 He pleaded guilty. CRICKET CLUB’S BEER

“If beer is both appropriated and paid for before Sunday, and merely picked up on Sunday, no offence is committed.” the Magistrate. when hearing a charge against a man whose name W’as suppressed, of being found on licensed premises after hours on December 30 However. the Magistrate found that the beer had in fact not been appropriated before Sunday in this case, and the defendant was convicted and fined £1 The defendant, treasurer of a social cricket club, said that it was his practice to order beer during the week if a match was scheduled for the Sunday, and to pay for it by cheque by Friday. If the weather was fine, the beer in flagons was collected on the Sunday morning. Evidence was given that the club’s jars had in fact been filled on the Saturday, but the rush of trade before the New Year forced the publican to sei: these jars to regular customers on the same day New’ jars were being filled for the club when the police arrived on Sundav morning

Detective-Sergeant D F Quirk said that he found the defendant and the publican inside the door of the hotel, the defendant holding a ElO note on Sunday morning In evidence the defendant said that the £lO note had nothing to do with the beer, which had already been oaid for by cheque. The Magistrate said that the defendant’s story about the £lO note was “a little thin,” but that he w’ould in any case be convicted. as the beer had not been appropriated until the Sunday TWO CHARGES Lynette Nancy King aged 19 a waitress, pleaded guilty by letter and was fined £2 for

being found on licensed: premises and £3 for giving! false particulars to the police LIQUOR NEAR HALL Four youths, whose names were suppressed, were convicted and fined £3 each on charges of being in possession of liquor near a dance hall on February 16. They pleaded guilty by letter. OPENED HOTEL ON SUNDAY For opening the King George Hotel for the sale of liquor on Sunday. December 30, the licensee. Durham Stuart Ogilvie, aged 29 (Mr R W Edgley), was convicted and fined £3 On a charge of selling liquor after hours. Ogilvie was convicted and discharged Hr pleaded guilty to both charge, , FINED £5 For failing to notify the military authorities of a change of address. Barry John Chulov aged 21, a farm worker (Mr R G Blunt), was convicted and fined £4. On a charge of failing to register for military service. Chulov was fined £1 He pleaded guilty to both charges REMANDED James Michael Burke, a freezing worker, aged 55. was remanded on bail to April 1 on a charge of theft as a servant on March 18 Lewis William Richardson, aged 24. a freezing worker, was remanded on bail to April 5 on a charge of peering into the window. of a dwelling-house on March 19 Patricia Maureen Crawford, aged 18. was remanded on bail to April 5 on a charge of using insulting language on March 13 A man, whose name was suppressed. was remanded on bail to April 8 on a charge of the theft of a carton of 48 bottles of gin on March 21. Jack Huxley, aged 48. was remanded on bail to May 1 on a charge of theft of £25 from the Perfection Ice Cream Company. Ltd On four charges of theft, involving £9 ss. Clive Belmont Goodenough, aged 22. a hospital orderly, teas remanded on ba.l to April 5. Charged with using obscene language in Worcester street on March 29. Melva Irene Gillespie, aged 45 (Mrs M. J. Glue), was remanded on bail to April 5 Charged with theft involving £5 9s 6d on February 28. Gary Edward Thomas, aged 23. a freezing worker, was remanded on bail to April 26 I Before Mr E. S. J. Crulchley. S.M.I TWO CHARGES Gary Francis Pasfield (Mr L M. O'Reilly) pleaded not guilty to charges of using obscene language and assault in Cathedral square on March 6. The hearing was adjourned to Monday. The complainant said in evidence that she and two other girls were walking past the post office when Pasfield shouted at them from a car. He then approached them and called them names She hit him. and he then kicked her. This evidence was supported by two other girls Constable N E. Ptpe said the girls approached him after the incident. He saw a bruise on one girl’s ankle. Pasfield would deny using obscene language and would say that he accidentally kicked the girl when he moved back after being slapped. Mr O'Reilly said TWO MONTHS’ GAOL

The public—particularly young women —had a right to be protected, the Magistrate said. He would give a lesson to others in imposing a two months' prison sentence on Desmond Frederick Stokes, aged 41. Stokes appeared for sentence on a charge of assaulting a woman passenger in a rail-car at Arthur’s Pass. Stokes had nothing to say.