MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30109, 18 April 1963, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

WEDNESDAY (Before Mr E. S. J. Orutahley, SM.) BOOKMAKING CHARGES Pleading guilty toe oharge ot carrying on teknea as a tawkmaker on April 18. Trevor Romkl Martin, 24, a itiearer, wx fined £2OO CuX—n* V F. Townshend aaiTV twute nt 15 Wyeota avenue was Marched at 2.40 pm. end Martin was found in a room with a telephone A Mt of beta amounting to £2M Ite was found beside foe telephone. Martin toM the Court ha

was just an agent • You had better atop »L Next time * w»M mean prison,” arid the MagMnte •There won’t be a next time,” tod Mtetin. Charged wtih aiding and •betting Martin in bookmaking, John Barry Morton, aged 21, a cabinet-maker, was fined £5O. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Townshend and Morton admitted allowing Martin to use has telephone for bookmaking purposes

Elizabeth Isabel White, aged 72. a pensioner, was fined £5O for carrying on business m a bookmaker on April 15. She pleaded guilty. . The accused's house at 15 Robson avenue was searched at 2.20 pm., arid Sargeant Townshend. Bets amounting to £l2 5s had been accepted and the accused admitted acting as an agent. She kept Is of every £l. FINED £l5 Pleading guilty to unlawfully taking a bicycle at Belfast on April 1«, Grobern Ross Eder, aged 35, a workman (Mr L. H. Moore), was fined £l5.

Eder was stopped and questioned by police at 2.30 a.m, said Sergeant Townshend. Eder said he had taken the bicycle from the Belfast Hotel. He bad not been convicted of any offence Since 1955.

Mr Moore said Eder had been staying at Stewarts Gully. He rang for a taxi but was asleep when it arrived. When he woke the taxi had gone and he had no pennies to ring for another, so he started to walk back to the city. He saw the cycle at the hotel and took X. TOOK CAR Charged with unlawfully taking a car from Seavicw road on April 15, Bruce William Shackleton, aged 23, a painter and paperhanger, was convicted and remanded on bail to April 22 for sentence. He pleaded gudrty.

FINED £3 Charged with being in charge of a bicycle while under the influence of drink or drugs in Rtccarton avenue on April 16, Francis Richard Fox, aged 51, was fined £3. Fox pleaded not guilty. The Magistrate said he saw no reason to doubt the evidence of two experienced constables that Fox was drunk.