Youths Disturbed When Trying To Steal Beer

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31187, 11 October 1966, Page 25

Youths Disturbed When Trying To Steal Beer

When three youths were dis-! • turbed while breaking into Ballins Breweries. Ltd.. Car- j lyle street, on October 1, two of them left in a car and trav- ; oiled at high speeds through i Svdenham and Waltham in an : effort to evade a police patrol car. Sergeant F. G. Mulcare told Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yester-) day. Appearing on a joint chargei of breaking and entering Ballins Breweries. Ltd., on October 1. Robert Edward May-; crs. aged 20, a wool store lab- i ourer. Raymond Clive Neither,: aged 18. a baker's assistant, ’ and John Campbell Couling, i aged 19. a metal polisher, were each convicted and remanded in custody to October ! 17 for a report and sentence.' On a further charge against ! Neither of driving at a speed ! which was or might have been dangerous in Waltham road on October 1 he was similarly! remanded. Pleas of guilty! were entered to all charges. ! Mr G. R. Lascelles appeared ! for Neither, and Mr R. F. B. Perry for Mayers and Couling. Sergeant Mulcare said that! the three youths attended a beer-drinking party on the evening of October 1, and when ! the beer ran out, they decided I to get some more. They went to Ballins Breweries, where it was decided! Mayers would break in while! the other two kept watch, and i helped to load the beer into; the car. Mayers was seen by a night |

watchman to go around the back of the brewery, and the j i police were called. When the! patrol car arrived. Neither! 1 and Couling, with the former 1 driving, “took off” at highh speed in their car, said Ser-I geant Mulcare. The car turned south and travelled along Hawdon street at between 40 and 50 miles an hour. A left turn was made at |, speed into Wordsworth street without stopping at the com-!! pulsory stop, and the speed j along Wordsworth street was | in excess of 50 miles an hour, i Neither turned south into! U altham road, cutting the cor-; ! ner as he did so. He drove ; along Waltham road at about 50 miles an hour, crossing a number of intersections and overtaking about three cars without slowing. He travelled for some distance on the incorrect side of the road, before going into the gutter on | the incorrect side of the road near the end of Waltham road. The car struck the culvert, narrowly missing a lamp-post, and the bonnet sprang open, completely obstructing the | driver's view. The car continued along the j road into Rogers street, where} :it became immobile becausel of a flat tyre and badly buckl-j ed wheel, Sergeant Mulcare : said.