MAGISTRATE’S COURT Sent For Trial On Burglary Charge

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31023, 31 March 1966, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Sent For Trial On Burglary Charge

After jumping from a moving car, the accused ran down Wordsworth street, jumped a fence, and continued running across two properties, while his driverless vehicle careered on down Orbell street, smashed through a fence, and hit a house, said Detective-Ser-geant N. J. Stokes in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Robin Michael Francis Sheedy, aged 22, a workman (Mr D. H. Stringer), was appearing before Messrs C. E. Wilkins and R. H. Harris, Justices of the Peace. He was committed for trial in the Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to charges of breaking and entering the Antigua Food Store, in Antigua street, with intent to commit a crime on March 9 and assaulting Marie Lucinsky with intent to facilitate his flight. Bail was refused. Detective - Sergeant Stokes said that about 12.56 a.m. on March 9, after receiving a complaint from the owner of the store, he was driving an unmarked police car to the store along Montreal street when he saw a green car turn out of the Ruskin street right-of-way. Suspicious, he gave chase. The car increased speed, turning corners with tyres screaming. In Orbell street the driver jumped out. The witness said that after being chased across two properties, the accused stopped and turned. The accused said he had run off because he was a disqualified driver. The complainant and her husband gave evidence of finding a man in the living quarters attached to their store. They tried to detain him, but he ran out the front door and drove away in a car. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of breaking and entering with intent to commit a crime, against John Ferguson, aged 31, unemployed (Mr I. C. J. Polson), was dismissed. Ferguson pleaded not guilty. It was alleged that he took a cash register valued at £145 and £BO in money from a dairy in Cashel street on February 3. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) FAILED TO GIVE WAY Joseph Woodward Myers, retired, was fined £lO on a charge of failing to give way to the right He pleaded not guilty and was represented by Mr P. D. A. Hinchcliff. The charge arose from a collision between a car driven by Myers and one driven by Eric Blaim at the corner of Colombo and Kilmore streets at 3.20 p.m. on November 30. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of careless driving against Michael Laurence Herdman, aged 21, a fitter and turner, was dismissed. Herdman denied the charge and was represented by Mr D. H. Stringer. The Magistrate said there was little traffic on the road at the time and no excessive speed was involved. Traffic Officer G. Hames said he saw the defendant’s car making several tight turns at an intersection in Memorial avenue and stopped him. The defendant was testing the suspension of the car he had just bought, and had the previous owner with him. OTHER TRAFFIC CHARGES In other traffic charges brought by the Transport Department fines were imposed as follows with costa of £1 IBs on each charge:— Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Frank William van Bracken, £4: Andrew Greer Linton, £4: Fife William Brian. £lO (faUed to keep left, £l>; Neil John Munro, £0; Woirterus Jansen, £4; Edith Mabel Slattery, costa only: Hugh Patterson Brown, £4; Cyril Anthony P. Deller, £3: Laurence Whitley, £4; John Anthony Roach £lO, disqualified from driving for three months; Raymond William Mitchell, £4; Graeme John Grant. £10: Clifford Banham, £4: Roderick lan Barry, £0; David Bennett, £3; John Gordon Brooker, £5 (following too close, £5): Robert Henry Burgess, £5; Walter Dearden Dunkley, £4: Desmond Kendall. £4: Ramond John Luscombe, £5; Joseph William

McFetrlsh, £3(exceeded 30 m.p.h without safety helmet, £2, failed to give way, £5); Nevlihle John McLean, £4; peter Rittson Pierce. £4; Frederick George Ransby, £4 (exceeding 30 m.p.h. without safety helmet, £2; Mclnder Ringland, £4; Kevin Robert Sangster, £4; Errol Bryan Skelton, £5; Calvyn Ernest Snelgar, £7 10s: Lloyd William Stewart, £5; Graham William Veale, £6, disqualified for two months; Garry Brown, £4; William Michael Foster, £5; Alice Agnes Leahy, £4; Cyril James Lythgoe, £3; Hugh Robert Owen, £4; Kenneth Raymond Pawsey, £4; Melvin Douglas Payne, £5; Rosalie Jean Riach, £4; June Doreen Rush, £4; James Smith, £5, disqualified for three months (no safety helmet, £3); Joyce Beverley Somerville, £8; Lawrence Edward Warne, £5; Patrick Bonnets, £5; Ivan Clement Briggs, £4; Stanley William Campbell, £4; Clive May Cavanagh, £3; Myra Pearl Chenery, £4; Godfrey Hugh Fowke, £8; Henry Elwyn Griffiths, £4; Kathleen Mary McGrath, £4: John Paul Muggleston, £4; Basil Kenneth Pettigrew, £4: Ernest James Plato, £4: Audrey Joyce Schults, £4. Failed to stop at stop sign: Jack Oslkal, £3; (exceeded 30 m.p.h., £3, no safety helmet, £1); Ronald William Geddes, £10; Maurice John Lee, £3. Insufficient lights: Ernest Robert Sutton, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £5): John Richard Leslie Morrison, £5; Kevin Jaye Becker, £2 10s (no warrant of fitness, £2 10s).

Exceeded statutory . axle weight: North Canterbury Transport Ltd., two charges, £2 on one and cost only on the other (exceeded heavy traffic licence, £5); Palmer Daily Freight, £6 (exceeded heavy traffic licence. £10).

Failed to comply with traffic officer: Donald Alan Skene, £lO.

Failed to keep left: Ronald Desmond French, £5, disqualified from driving for six months, (no driver's licence. £7, disqualified

from driving for six months); Raymond Camington, £3. No warrant of fitness: William Houlstoh King. £5; Francis lan Colishaw, £1; Christopher Muggututla, £2; Paul Francis O’Donnell, £2; Isobel Ake, 10s: Angus Rutherford Guy, £3; Reidar Villy Huatorpel, £2; Arnold Bertie Johnson. £1; Terence Raymond McCrystall, £2; Peter Eustace White, £5 (failed to produce driver’s licence, £5). Exceeded temporary speed limit: Russel Joseph Adams, £2: Alexander Smith, £3. No driver’s licence: Norman Fred Soper, £5: Trevor Desmond Painter, £3 (disqualified for 6 months). Proceeded from stop sign before the way was clear: Cohen Arthur J. Chapman, £B. Failed to comply with traffic lights: James Pate, £lO, (failed to produce driver’s licence, £5). Passing on an intersection: Alan James Robinson, £5. Excessive width load: P. G. Morrison, Ltd., £3. Careless driving: Garnet Vernon I. Chapman, £lO (failed to give correct name and address, £5). Failed to yield right of way to a pedestrian on a crossing: Clive William Stoddard Johnstone, £lO, (gave false Information, £5). Insecure trailer: John Curtis Ltd., £5; Fred Hopkinson, £5. Speed too great to stop in half the distance of clear road: Leonard John Douglas, £4. Failed to produce driver's licence: Fraser McDougall Templeton, £2. (Before Mr G. A. Nicholls, S.M.) FINED £3 Francis Louis Grubb, an engineer. was fined £5 on a charge of falling to give way to the right at the corner of Selwyn and Somerfield streets on December 3. He pleaded not guilty and was represented by Mr E. O. Sullivan. Grubb was also ordered to pay witness expenses of £l.