MAGISTRATES COURT Man Remanded After Arrest At Spencerville

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31344, 14 April 1967, Page 10

MAGISTRATES COURT Man Remanded After Arrest At Spencerville

A man who was arrested at Spencerville in the early hours of yesterday morning after a large-scale search by policemen and dogs was remanded in custody when he appeared before Mr P. L. Molineaux, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Patrick William Hammond, aged 45, unemployed, was remanded to April 20 on a charge of being idle and disorderly in that he had insufficient lawful means of support on April 13. Sergeant F. G. Mulcare said he would strenuously oppose any application for bail. There were many other charges to be brought against Hammond, he said. A large number of policemen had been involved in a search for Hammond oh Wednesday, he said. REMANDED TO SUNNYSIDE Terence John Henry Glackin, aged 54, a storeman (Mr B. J. Drake), was remanded to Sunnyside Hospital under section 37 of the Mental Health Act until May 18 on a charge of murdering Betty Aileen Glackin, his wife, on April 4. Mr Drake said the report forwarded by the medical superintendent of the hospital had come as a complete surprise to the defendant, his medical adviser, and the members of his own family. Mr Drake consented to the remand. BREACH OF PROBATION Dorothy Anne Klein (alias Christince Rendall), aged 25, unemployed, was convicted and remanded on bail to April 20 for a probation officer’s report and sentence when she pleaded guilty to a breach of probation. THEFT OF BICYCLES Neil Loechel, aged 28, a labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of a bicycle, valued at £32, the property of G. Wootton, in Cathedral square on March 31 He also pleaded guilty to a charge of being a prohibited immigrant and unlawfully landing in New Zealand on January 18. Sergeant Mulcare said the owner of the cycle had seen Loechel riding it along Harper avenue on April 5. He followed him in his truck to Oxford terrace, stopped him and took him to the police. Loechel had 22 convictions in Australia. FINED £7 10 Richard James Paurini. aged 21, a textile worker, was fined £7 10s when he pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving two rugs valued at £3 on February 18 at Kaiapoi, knowing that they had been dishonestly obtained. CHARGE DISMISSED After hearing evidence from a member of Parliament that his chauffeur had made a completely safe turn, the Magistrate dismissed a charge of proceeding from a stop sign

when the way was not clear, against William Edward Barry, aged 48, a Government chauffeur. .^ Bar L y P leade 4 not guilty to the charge, John Kenny, an engineer, said he was travellllng along Memorial avenue on January 14 at dusk at about 50 miles an hour, when a black car pulled out from the stop sign on Russley road and turned In front of him. He had nowhere to go and hit the car in the rear after braking severely. Henry Leonard James May, a member of Parliament, said he saw Kenny’s car approaching but it was some distance away and he would have made the turn himself. The impact occurred when the car he was travelling in had completed its turn and was heading towards the airport. ADJOURNED A charge of careless use of a motor van causing the death of Joseph Mahu Harris, on State Highway No. 1 near Kaikoura on December 27, against Douglas Joseph Harris, his son, was adjourned part heard until today. MISCELLANEOUS PROSECUTIONS Minor found in a public bar: Nigel Brett Iggulden, £3; Gregory Ward, £3 s r£l re l? s f n use: Edw ard Brian Leah, £7 10s. (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) MRTY BOTTLES When the Health Department Inspector called at the Christchurch Milk Company last year f “ und ‘he facilities for inspection of bottles to be inadeTToaith n“ dMr R - Pow ell for the Department in a case a^J ns ‘ ‘he milk company The company (Mr G. F. Rea) was charged with failing to keep milk bottles clean? tS which it pleaded guilty Decision was reserved Mr Powell said the inspector !?“" d ‘ w “ milk bottles with a ho. •>o° f d L rt them on November 22 and when he called on December 7 he found anothe? d 1 r t t tl on° f the il b k itt7j th ’ ‘ race “The company does al! it can to ensure the milk bottles are nlfaJ’lUm? 1 W u ith something like one million bottles a week going through its factory, it is M Cry » d,fficult to control,” said Mr Rea. OBSCENE LANGUAGE A youth, whose name was suppressed, was fined ,£io on a charge of using obscene language in Cathedra] square on April 1. He pleaded guilty and was represented by Mr R. G. Blunt. NOXIOUS WEEDS Two farming companies of Akaroa, were convicted on a breach of the Noxious Weeds Act. Each company pleaded not guilty to the charges. Chamberlain King Ltd., was convicted and fined a total of £2O on two charges of a breach of the Act on December 31. Mac Holdings Ltd., was convicted and fined £2O on one charge. Mr W. F. Chamberlain, an official of both companies, conducted the defence. NO TV LICENCE Two persons, Kelvin Frederick Goddard and Robert Alexandra Kilpatrick, were each convicted and fined £6 and ordered to pay solicitor’s fees of £3 3s, for failing to licence a television set. Neither defendant appeared. DISCHARGED Bruce Hilliard Tocker, aged 28, a railway worker, was discharged without conviction under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act on a charge of assaulting his wife, Jill Tocker, on April 1 at Cheviot. Tocker, who pleaded guilty, was represented by Mr R. G. Blunt. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) DANGEROUS SPEED Barry John Austin, aged 19, a metal polisher (Mr R. G. Blunt) was convicted and fined £lO and disqualified from driving for a year when he pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving on Colombo street on January 5, at a speed which might have been dangerous. FINED £1 For failing to supply his name and address, Emile Frederick McSweeney, was fined £l. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.). DISQUALIFIED AGAIN James MacKenzie, aged 28, a sideshow labourer (Mr G. T. Mahon), was fined £5O, disqualified from driving for a further year, and placed on probation for two years when he appeared for sentence on a charge of driving while disqualified in Invercargill on December 29. It was his fourth offence of driving while disqualified.

On a second charge of careless use he was fined £6. The Magistrate said that a fourth offence of driving while disqualified would normally result in imprisonment but he would take the exceptional course of not sending the accused to prison, largely because of the accused’s improvement as a person in the last two years.