Magistrate’s Court Man Fined £20 On Theft Charge

Press, Issue 30997, 1 March 1966, Page 14

Magistrate’s Court Man Fined £20 On Theft Charge

A man who was employed on painting the outside of a house entered it on an impulse and stole cups and clothing worth £6, Detective-Sergeant B. I. S. Kimber told Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. James Charles Doyle, aged 20, a sand-blaster (Mr G. R. Lascelles), pleaded guilty to a charge of theft between December 25 and January 17. He was convicted and fined £2O and ordered to make restitution of £3 3s.

Mr Lascelles said Doyle had settled down and married since his last conviction. He was in steady work and his employers were anxious to keep him.

OBSCENE LANGUAGE “This offence was committed shortly after you had been convicted for a similar offence. Unless you are more selective in your companions you are going to finish in an institution,” said the Magistrate when he admitted Robert Stanley Annear, aged 18, a freezing worker, to probation for a year and fined him £l5 on a charge of using obscene language on February 11. He was ordered not to associate with persons not approved of by the probation officer.

THEFT AS A SERVANT George Frederick Edwards, aged 54, a butcher, pleaded guilty to a charge that on February while a servant of Canterbury Frozen Meat Sales, Ltd., he stole from the company. meat valued at £8 9s 7d. He was convicted and remanded till March 7 for sentence. Bail was allowed.

Detective-Sergeant Kimber said that another employee had been apprehended with a parcel of meat in his car. As the result of inquiries Edwards had told the police he had made up the package of meat and placed it in the car. He said he had not intended paying for it and regarded it as a “perk.” STOLE WALLET James Leighton Barnes, aged 17, a plasterer’s labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge that on February 25 he stole a wallet and contents of a total value of £5 12s 2d, the property of Jillian Butt. He was convicted and remanded for sentence on March 7. Bail was allowed.

FINED FOR TRESPASSING Charged with wilfully trespassing on the premises of 29 Macauley street on February 19, Rosamund Hempstalk, aged 45, a housewife, was convicted and fined £5. She pleaded guilty. Mr A. B. Harman, who appeared for Hempstalk, said that the offence had resulted from a visit Hempstalk made to the premises in an attempt to patch up a family quarrel. DRUNK William Stevenson Wylie, aged 38, a farm labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk on the Main South highway on February 26. He admitted having been convicted twice previously in the last six months of a similar offence. He was fined £4, in default five days’ imprisonment. OFFENSIVE MATTER Charged with casting offensive matter in St. Asaph street on December 22, Graham Edward Foley, aged 29, a telegraph assistant, was convicted and fined £5. He pleaded guilty by letter. UNREGISTERED DOG Charged with having an unregistered dog on January 4, Arthur Isherwood, a rubber worker, was convicted and fined £3. He pleaded guilty by letter.

(Before Mr E. S. P. Crutchley, S.M.) PROBATION

Brian Maurice McAuliffe, aged 20, a factory worker, was placed on probation for a year and was ordered to make restitution of £6 10s and to pay witnesses’ expenses of £2 when he appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing £6 10s, the property of William Cleland Christie, on November 13. (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) RECEIVED BATTERY Peter Tauwhare, aged 38, a freezing worker (Mr K. M. Hampton) was convicted of receiving between June 4 and July 13 an electric fence battery valued at £4 7s 6d knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. He was remanded for sentence on March 7. Bail was allowed. At the hearing last Thursday Tauwhare had pleaded not guilty to the charge and on. completion of the evidence the Magistrate reserved his decision.

Fall In Cotton.— Aden’s cotton crop in the 1965-66 season is expected to be about half of the previous season's yield because of a water shortage, the South Arabian Federal Ministry of Agriculture announced. —Aden.