MAGISTRATES COURT Stole Articles Worth £4287 In Three Burglaries

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30827, 12 August 1965, Page 10

MAGISTRATES COURT Stole Articles Worth £4287 In Three Burglaries

Goods valued at £4287 17s 6d were stolen in three burglaries by the accused and his accomplices, Senior-Sergeant G. M. Cleary told Mr K. H. J. Headjfen, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Before the Court was David Barry Mathias, aged 18, an unemployed workman (Mr M. F. Hobbs), who pleaded guilty to charges of breaking and entering the premises of Lloyd’s Watchmakers on July 12, breaking and entering the premises of T. Armstrong and Company, Ltd., on July 14, breaking and entering the premises of Bartlett’s Jewellers on July 21, unlawfully taking a car valued at £450, the property of Somerset Motors, on July 13, unlawfullytaking a car valued at £llOO. the property of Cliff Jones Motors, on July 21, and being idle and disorderly on July 16 in that he had insufficient lawful means of support. Mathias was convicted and remanded in custody to August 17 for sentence. Mathias had previously elected trial by jury on all charges, but changed his election and pleaded guilty yes-

terday. Senior-Sergeant Cleary said watches and rings worth £225 15s were stolen from the shop of Lloyd’s Watchmakers. The accused claimed that all the stolen property had been sold. The police had not recovered any of it. Radios, electric shavers, and clothing valued at £902 Ils were stolen from T. Armstrong and Company, Ltd. None of it had been recovered. Mathias had told the police that it was sold to a receiver. Inquiries were being made. Property valued at £3159 Ils 6d was stolen from Bartlett’s Jewellers, and £2849 11s 6d worth had been recovered. Both cars had been recovered.

Mathias had previous convictions, Senior-Sergeant Cleary said. BOOKMAKER FINED A fine of £lOO was imposed on Douglas Henry Meier, aged 50, a compositor (Mr K. N. Hampton), who was convicted on a charge of carrying on the business of a bookmaker on August 10. Meier pleaded guilty. An order was also made for the removal of Meier’s telephone. Senior-Sergeant Cleary said that at 12.20 p.m. on August 10 a police party searched Meier’s home at 295 Pages road. Meier denied that he had received bets, but while the police were there a caller on the telephone placed a bet for the race meeting at Riccarton. A pad carrying details of bets on the Riccarton race meeting was also found Meier told the police that he was doing it for a friend. Mr Hampton said that Meier was acting as a bookmaker’s agent. The total of bets placed that day was £73, which was abnormally high for a week day. Meier accepted wagers only from his friends, and received a commission of only Is in the £l.

He had no previous convictions, said Mr Hampton. DISQUALIFIED DRIVER Roriald John Beran, aged 32, a storehand (Mr G. T. Mahon), was fined £3O and admitted to probation for one year when he appeared for sentence on a charge of driving while disqualified at Hilderthorpe on February 13. His licence was also cancelled for one year.

CONVICTED AND DISCHARGED Charged with being unlawfully on a building on August 11, Alan Charles Jolley, aged 21, an assistant engineer, pleaded guilty. Malcolm Stuart Kellaway, aged 22, a clerk, also pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully getting into a car on the same date. Both were convicted and discharged, with an order for the payment of costs. An application by Jolley for the suppression of his name was refused.

Senior-Sergeant Cleary said that at 1 a.m. yesterday the accused were seen acting suspiciously in Manchester street. One got into a parked car, and the other climbed a fire escape on a building in Bedford row. Both were under the influence of alcohol. IDLE AND DISORDERLY Heather Dawn Hodge, aged 18, unemployed, was convicted and remanded on bail to August 19 for sentence on a charge of being idle and disorderly on August 11 in that she had insufficient lawful means of support. She pleaded guilty. SUSPENDED SENTENCE Charged with theft of an iron valued at £2 on June 9, Marie Ellice Baken, aged 20, unemployed, pleaded guilty. She was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called on within six months. An order was made for the return of the property. I The Magistrate said that because Baken was already on probation, she would be given a suspended sentence. .BREACH OF PROBATION Charged with breach of probation on July 16 in failing to report to the probation officer, Kevin Charles Stillwell, aged 19, pleaded, guilty. He was convicted and fined £5. REMANDED Peter Lloyd Machlrus, aged 19, a workman, was remanded in custody to August 25 for the taking of depositions when he appeared on three charges of burglary, two charges of unlawfully taking a car. and one of breach of probation. He had previously elected trial by jury on all charges. James Ernest Farr, aged 46. was remanded to today on baton a charge of unlawfully taking a cycle on August 10. Howard Joseph Johns, aged 36 was remanded to today on bai on a charge of flase pretences

; to the value of £5 10s 6d on August 6. Colin Brian Paul, aged 22, was > remanded to today on bail on ; a charge of theft of a driver’s licence valued at 5s on April 1. FINED £2 Charged with overtaking on an intersection in Riccarton

road on June 11, Raymond William Atkinson, a sales manager, pleaded not guilty. He was convicted and fined £2. ' DISMISSED A charge against Midland ; Motorways Services, Ltd., of exceeding a certificate-of-fitness ’ weight-limit on April 29 was ; dismissed. Mr B. J. Drake [ appeared for the company, and entered a plea of not guilty. ’ A charge against P. G. Morri- > son, Ltd. (Mr B. S. McLaughlin), . of not having a heavy-traffic . licence on May 27 was dismissed. The company pleaded not guilty. 1 OTHER TRAFFIC CASES In other traflic cases brought by the Transport Department, , convictions were entered and • penalties imposed as follows: — Exceeded ,30 miles an hour: • Jim Williams, £5: Lodewijk i Dejongh, £6; Alan Pye, £7 (no warrant of fitness, £2); John Dionne-Deane, £3; Eric Francis Hope, £8; Rodney John Colum- [ bus, £6; Kevin Leslie Evans, £5; . Ewen Bruce £6; John Clive Nelson, £5; Cyril Francis Rutter, £10; David Burrell r Smith, £7; Jeanette Bethea | Horne, £7; Douglas Bartl Jarvis, £4; Alfred John Kercher, £5; Adam Allistair McPherson, £7; • Kathryn Mary Millar, £7; Bern-

ard Palmer, £8; Murray Allan Pash, £10; John Archdall Raymond, £7; Barry John Steven- ' son, £5; Peter Raymond i Wheeler, £7; Allen Alfred ’Williams, £4; Gerald Haverland, £6; Allan Kevin Holmes, £lO, licence cancelled for six months (exceeded 55 miles an hour, £6); Bryce David McFetridge, £7 (exceeded 55 miles an hour, £6); Kenneth Charles Meyers, £4 (no warrant of fitness, £2); William Alfred Millar, £6; Walter Balfour Murray, £S; William Colin Pool, £4; . Allen Murray Popham, £6; . Pieter van der Looy, £5; John , Wagstaff, £6; Allan Wilson, £5. Exceeded 55 miles an hour: i John Harrison Booth, £7; Ter- . rence Charles Perham, £7 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £4): John Graham Hew- » son, £7: James Bellord Waldron, 5 £10: Ivan Youngman, £7. i Exceeded 30 miles an hour without safety helmet: Robert Kevin Proctor. £6. Exceeded 40 miles an hour

with trailer: Antonius Matthews Ditmer. £7. Careless use: John Popplewell, £8: Terrence George Brown, £8: Garry Cedrick Watson. £S, ordered to attend a course of traffic lectures (failed to produce driver’s licence, £5). Failed to stop at compulsory stop. Colin Watts Grover, £7; Dudley Galbraith Papprill, £7; Michael Thomas Prior. £7; George Taylor Smith, £lO. Failed to give way at giveway sign: William Johnstone, £lO. Passed at no-passing lines: Percy Jackson, £B, licence cancelled for three months. Failed to keep to left: Daniel Gerard Tohill, £5. Passed at pedestrian crossing: Anthony Cunningham. £B, ordered to attend a course of traffic lectures. Operated noisy vehicle: Alan Edward Jones, £2. Cycle without light: William Robert Aitken, £l. Wrong class of driver’s licence: David John Coull, £3. Insecure trailer: John Douglas Scott, £3. Insufficient lights: Raymond Livingstone Smith, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £3). No heavy-traffic licence: James Thomas Palmer, £6 (no certificcate of fitness, £5). Exceeded heavy-traffic licence: Kenneth Andrew Bailey, £5. No warrant of fitness: Charles Halkett Ratcliffe, £5 (defective parking brake, £2). (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) CARELESS DRIVING A charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous in Ferry road, Ensors road, and Sullivan avenue on April 4, against Russell George Webster, aged 23, a fitter and turner (Mr M. J. Glue), was reduced to one of careless driving. He pleaded not guilty to the original charge and guilty to the amended one. He was convicted and fined £lO, and was ordered to attend a course of traffic lectures. FINED £l5 John William Hartnell, a clerk (Mr P. G. S. Penlington), pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to keep to the left in St. Albans street on December 5, 1964. He was convicted and fined £l5, and was ordered to attend a course of traffic lectures. UNSAFE VEHICLE Charged with operating an unsafe vehicle in Bealey avenue on April 30, Douglas Robert Slade, aged 25, a workman, pleaded not guilty. He was convicted and fined £lO. FINED £5 Charged with exceeding 30 miles an hour in Pages road on April 30, John Richard Amos Parrott, aged 30, a taxi-driver (Mr P. G. S. Penlington), pleaded not guilty. He was convicted and fined £5.