MAGISTRATE’S COURT Man Gaoled For 15 Months On Burglary Charge

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31112, 15 July 1966, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Man Gaoled For 15 Months On Burglary Charge

“You have a bad criminal record, including many offences for dishonesty,” said Mr H. J. Evans, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when he sentenced John Arthur Gay, aged 22, unemployed, to 15 months’ imprisonment on a charge of breaking and entering the premises of Tasman Tailors in Armagh street. For the accused, Mr M. G. L. Loughnan said that Gay had suffered from a most turbulent and disturbing environment throughout his life. His parents had been at loggerheads for most of their married life. Gay had been out of gaol for about a week when he committed the offence to get some clothes. “On June 24 you were released from prison after serving the best part of two years,” the Magistrate said. “You have been given chances In the past, but you have not availed yourself of them.” Gay was ordered to make restitution of £9 16s lid. THREE MONTHS’ GAOL Nicholas Wood, aged 19, a seaman in the Tasmania Star, was sent to prison for three months when he appeared for sentence on two charges of theft, two of unlawfully getting into cars, and one of being in possession of burglar’s tools. The Magistrate made an order that he be placed aboard his ship before it left the country. Wood was ordered to make restitution of £lO. “When your ship berthed at Lyttelton you came ashore an' decided ‘to have a go at a few cars and shops,’ according to what you told the police,” said the Magistrate. “VIOLENT ASSAULT” “This was a violent assault on a young man and the offence arose because of your jealousy over a girl,” the Magistrate said when he fined John Robinson, aged 20, a fitter, £2O on a charge of assaulting John David Webb. Robinson, who was appearing for sentence, was ordered to pay £ll to Webb for dental and medical expenses, and the Magistrate directed that half the fine also be paid to Webb. Mr D. H. Stringer, for the accused, said that since Robinson had been placed on probation he had shown improvement. He called on the complainant in a hot temper after he found that Webb had been out with his girl. Robinson denied using his boot. ’’’he Magistrate said Robinson had been in a great deal of trouble. PROBATION AND FINE Errol Dennis Kettle, aged 28, • carpenter, was admitted to probation for a year, was fined £3O and was ordered to make restitution of £2OO when he appeared for sentence on a charge of false pretences at Palmerston North. Mr R. L. Kerr, for the accused. said Kettle had tied himaelf down with too much in mortgages and hire-purchase payments. He had capitalised on the family benefit, but had three mortgages on his house In Palmerston North. In addition, he was buying furniture and a car on hire-purchase. "You sold a car which was under a hire-purchase agreement and you used the £2OO for your own benefit,” said the Magistrate. PROBATION ‘■l will take Into account that you have spent nine days In custody,” said the Magistrate when he admitted Maxine Joan Davies, aged 10, unemployed, to a year’s probation when she appeared for sentence on a charge of being Idle and disorderly in that she had insufficient lawful means of support. Davies was ordered to live and work where directed. On a charge of breach of probation by failing to report she was convicted and discharged.

IDLE AND DISORDERLY Graham Charles Wells, aged 18, a workman, was admitted to probation for a year and was ordered to live and work where directed when he appeared for sentence on a charge of being idle and disorderly In that he had Insufficient lawful means of support. June Pixie Taylor, aged 17, unemployed, was admitted to probation for a year and was ordered to live and work where directed when she appeared for sentence on a charge of being idle and disorderly in that she had Insufficient lawful means of support. MURDER CHARGE James Charles Bremner, aged 62, a cleaner, was remanded In custody to August 15 for the taking of depositions on a charge of murdering his wife, Amelia Sybil Bremner, on June 16. A charge of attempted murder against Bremner was withdrawn on the application of the police. BURGLARS CONVICTED Barry James Richards, aged 27, a carpenter, and Thomas Henry Pink, aged 35, a workman. pleaded guilty to joint charges that on July 5 at Dunedin they broke and entered the New Club Hotel, Dunedin, with Intent to commit a crime, and that on July 5 they obtained credit amounting to £lB from James William Winchester by means of a fraud. Pink also pleaded guilty to a charge that on July 5 at Christchurch he attempted to obtain £4O from Plimsolls, Ltd., by means of a false pretence and that between June 17 and June 24 he stole from James Marshall Mathieson a tape-re-corder and a radio valued at £45. Richards pleaded guilty to a charge that on June 29 at Dunedin he had obtained credit from Lewis Alexander Stevenson amounting to £9 17s by means of a fraud, and not guilty to a charge that in Manchester street on July 6 he used obscene language. Each was convicted of the charges to which he had pleaded guilty and was remanded In custody for a probation officer's report and sentence on July 21. Richards was also remanded till the same date on the charge of obscene language to which he had pleaded not guilty. Detective Sergeant D Porteous said that on July 6 Ernest William Chandler of the New Club Hotel, Dunedin, had complained that the hotel had been burgled. The persons involved had climed over a fence and entered the hotel through a closed but unlocked kitchen door. Twelve shillings was taken from a cash box in the kitchen. Entry had been gained to a bar and £4O in money and a cheque book were taken. James William Winchester, a Dunedin taxi-driver, on July 6 told the police at Christchurch that in the early hours of that morning he had picked up two men in the Octagon and driven them to Oamaru. He was paid in advance for that journey. After a meal at Oamaru the two men had asked to be driven to Christchurch and had paid for the journey with a cheque In Christchurch, Winchester had taken the cheque to a bank where it was discovered that the cheque was one of a number stolen from the New Club Hotel, Dunedin. Pink had later been located at Plimsoll’s, Ltd., where he was attempting to cash another of the cheques from the New Club Hotel. It was made out tor £4O. On June 24 James Marshall Mathieson. a relation of Pink’s had complained that a tape recorder and transistor radio had been stolen from him. Richards on June 29 had booked into the Leviathan Hotel, Dunedin. The next morning he had told the manager, Lewis Alexander Stevenson, that he was going to draw some money from the Post Office but he had not returned to pay an account of £9 17s. Restitution of £29 6s was askfor in respect of Pink and £39 17s was asked for in respect of Richards, he said. CARELESS USE Shane Peter Mathew Murphy, aged 21, a carpenter, pleaded not guilty to a charge of careless use of a car in Colombo street on April 9. He was convicted and fined £5, and ordered to pay witness expenses of £3. Mr L. M. O’Reilly appeared for the defendant. CONVERTED CYCLE Toko Whatuira, aged 19. an apprentice panel beater (Mr L. M. O’Reilly) pleaded guilty to a charge that on July 10 he unlawfully took from Cathedral Square a pedal cycle. He was convicted and fined £lO. Detective - Sergeant Porteous said the owner of the cycle had not been traced.

CONVERTED CAB Carl Edwards, aged 25, a painter (Mr R. de R. Flesher) and Kenneth Kupu Hokal, aged 24, a dustman (Mr H. G. Blunt) pleaded guilty to a charge that on July 5 they had unlawfully taken a motor vehicle valued at £225 the property of Peter Jack Yeates. Each was convicted and remanded on bail till July 21 for a probation officer's report and sentence. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.) STOLE OUTBOARD MOTOR Godfrey King, aged 21, a workman (Mr M. J. Glue), was convicted and remanded on baD until July 21 for sentence on a charge that on November 25, 1961, he stole an outboard motor and petrol tank, valued at £BO, the property of Leslie Arthur Walter. King pleaded not guilty. Walter said that In 1961 he sent his station waggon from Canada to New Zealand by sea. In the back were an outboard motor, a red petrol tank and household effects. When he went to collect his vehicle from the railway yards in Christchurch he found it had been broken into and the outboard motor and tank were missing. Eric George Morris said that he had seen the outboard motor in King's possession before Christmas, 1961, and that King was repairing it. Detective Sergeant Eric Gladstone Ward said that in May, 1963, he found the outboard motor, in the basement of King’s mother’s home tn Timaru. King’s mother told him the outboard motor had come from an American's car in the railway yards at Christchurch. FINED £2O Greame Jordan, aged 17, was convicted and fined £l5 on a charge of exceeding 45 miles an hour with a pillion passenger on the Chrlstchurch-Lytteiton tunnel motorway on May 28. On a charge of exceeding 30 miles an hour without a safety helmet Jordan was convicted and fined £5. FINED £3O South Island Caterers, Ltd., was convicted and fined £l5 on each of two charges of falling to furnish returns of income in 1964 and 1965. The company pleaded guilty. TRUANCY Lionel Edward Street was convicted and fined £2O on two charges of failing to ensure his child’s attendance at school in April, May and June. DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR Roger Malcolm Williams, aged 20, a machine operator, was fined £lO on a charge of disorderly behaviour, and Douglas Barry Borton, a workman, was fined £4 on a similar charge. Charges of assault against both were dismissed. They pleaded guilty to all charges. The Magistrate said to Wil-

llamx that by producing a firearm and working tbe bolt he i had aggravated an explosive ’ situation. . Mr M. J. Glue appeared ■ for : Williams and Mr J. W. Dalmer I for Borton. ■ (Before Mr E. s. J. Crutchley, S.M.) FALSE PRETENCES David Robinson Scott, aged 39, a butcher and chef (Mr 'l. C. J. Polson), was convicted and sentenced to one year’s -imprisonment, to be concurrent with a present term of imprisonment, on a charge ‘of false pretences involving a cheque for £47 10s on July 30, 1965. He pleaded not guilty. YEAR’S PROBATION Elizabeth Anne Te Hei, aged 34, unemployed, appeared tor sentence on charges of being idle and disorderly in that she , had insufficient means ol support on July 5 and stealing a blanket, valued at £6, the property of the People’s Palace on or about July 2. She was placed on probation for one year on both charges, "With your record you could go straight back to prison,” said the Magistrate. "However, I do take into account that your record since 1963 had shown a good effort to improve yourself.” ASSAULTED BOYS Barrie Keith Henry Sellwood, aged 18, a labourer, was re- . manded on bail to July 25 for sentence on charges of assaulting Warren Gregory Rochford and Murray Maitland Everett, both aged 15, at Hornby, on May 26. Sellwood, who was* represented by Mr G. R. Lascelles, pleaded guilty to the charge involving Rochford, and not guilty to the charge involving Everett. The offences were committed in an alley after Sellwood, another youth, and the two boys got off a bus (Before Mr R. D. Jamieson, S.M.) DAMAGES CLAIMS As a result of- a collision be- , tween cars driven by a police woman and a detective constable's wife outside the Central Police Station on September 10, 1965, Rosalie Sterrjtt, the policewoman (Mr L. M. O’ReiUy), claimed £46 12s . from Erica Gilmore, a married woman (Mr R. G. Blunt), as the cost of repairs to her car, and Mrs Gilmore counterclaimed £l5 14s 6d as the cost of repairs to her car. The Magistrate gave judgment In favour of Miss Sterrltt for £46 12s. He disallowed the counter-claim. The owner of a car which was struck on the rear by another car at the intersection of Hoon Hay and Halswell Toads on May 11, 1965, was awarded the cost of repairing the damage. He is Carl,- Raymond Perrin, a refrigeration engineer (Mr R. J. Allan), who claimed £29 Ils 6d from Wayne Samuel Wright, a workman (Mr G. W. Alexander).