MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youths Fined £40 Each For Helping Girl To Escape

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31408, 29 June 1967, Page 10

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youths Fined £40 Each For Helping Girl To Escape

“If it was not for your good work records you would both go to Borstal or a detention centre,” Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., told Ralph Laudale Bell and Peter Dunstan Murphy in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Bell, aged 17, an unemployed alloy worker, and Murphy, aged 20, an alloy worker, both pleaded guilty to a charge of assisting a girl to escape from the Child Welfare receiving home in Ferry road on April 12. The girl’s name was suppressed. For the police Sergeant V. F. Townshend said that at 6.45 p.m. on April 12 the girl had arranged to escape with another girl from the security wing. The defendants were driving past and the girl, who was waiting by the fence, stopped them. She knew the defendants, The other girl managed to break out but was caught. “The defendants drove to a flat in Papanui road but did not stay long. They and the girl drove around Christchurch until being apprehended at 4 a.m.,” said Sergeant Townshend. The Magistrate said that the defendants’ behaviour would be very expensive. He fined them £4O each. DROVE UNDER INFLUENCE

The Magistrate found that on the evening of June 3 Horace William Hickman, aged 54, drove a car while under the influence of drink or drugs. Hickman, a company manager (Mr B. McClelland) denied the charge that arose from an incident on the No. 1 State highway about three miles south of Burnham. Sergeant Townshend said that on the evening in question the defendant was seen by a traffic officer to veer to the wrong side of the road. The defendant was stopped and the officer was of the opinion that he was unfit to drive. He was then arrested and taken to the Central Police Station, Christchurch, and examined. Hickman said that on June 3 he attended a race meeting at Ashburton, had a few drinks during the lunch hour, later in the afternoon and at the Dunsandel Hotel. He described himself as a moderate drinker and considered that he was quite capable of driving. He was fined £3O and disqualified from driving for three years. THREE MONTHS’ GAOL When asked what he wanted, Edward Arthur Halligan, aged 47, unemployed said: "I’ve come to see the vicar.” The vicar was not at home and Halligan went inside and stole an electric razor valued at £6. He was found and charged with theft. The Magistrate sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment. ASSAULTED DRIVER In an argument after a motor accident on Moorhouse avenue on February 18, Robert Claude McQuoid, aged 29, a driver, assaulted the driver of the car he struck. “He was provoked but lost his

temper,” said his counsel, Mr S. G. Erber. The charge was admitted as was another of careless use.

The Magistrate fined the defendant £l2 for assaulting Mervyn Richard Monk, £5 for careless use, ordered him to pay restitution £8 and witnesses' expenses, £2. RECEIVING ADMITTED

Gary Campbell, aged 22, a shearer, was ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months if called upon on two charges of receiving. Campbell pleaded guilty to receiving deer antlers, valued at £3, and a stag’s head, valued at £5, from Michael John Harvey at Papakura, knowing that they were dishonestly obtained. An order was made for the return of the property. TRAFFIC CASES In cases brought by the Police Department fines were imposed as follows: Proceeding through a stop sign when the way was not clear: John George Staunton, £7 10s. Failing to give way to the right: John Cleeve-Edwards, £5. Failing to supply name and address: Wayne Curtis Durham, £6 (witnesses’ expenses, £2). (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) DISMISSED A charge of careless driving at Nelson on January 4 against Milton Lester Milburn, a solicitor, was dismissed. Milburn (Mr J. R. Woodward) pleaded not guilty. The Magistrate said there was a considerable conflict of evidence and that it would not be safe to enter a conviction. TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS

In traffic prosecutions brought by the Transport Department convictions were entered and penalties imposed as follows. Exceeding 30 miles an hour: Marita Aan Franicevlc, £5; Trevor James Dallow, £4; Miles Morrow Middleton, £6; Clifford Arthur Parkin, £3; Earl Henry Lawrence, £3: Malcolm Thomas Jackson, £3 (failed to produce traffic licence, £5); Peter Courtney Allpress, £5; Phyllis Elizabeth Armstrong, £3; Michael Leslie Bennett, £4; Owen Maunice Gerrard, £4; Ronald James Laird, £4; Leslie James McClure, £4; David Vincent Perry, £4; Virginia Terpay Price, £4; Eric James Marsh, £4; Frank Robert Scott, £5; Donald Anthony Bennett, £5; Gary William Cooper, £5; John James Greenslade, £4; Robert Walter Eade, £4: Charles Cecil Wildbore, £4; John Edward Ramsay, £4. Failing to stop at a stop sign: Thomas Edward Freeman, £3 (careless use, £5, disqualified for six months); Demitar Ruscoe, £3; Clifford Bernard Wells, £3: John Rattray, £B. Exceeding axle weight: Ronald David Shaw, £3; R. R. Price, Ltd. two charges, £7 10s, £7 10s; Farrier Walmak, Ltd., £7 10s (exceeded heavy traffic licence, £7 10s). No warrant of fitness: Ronald Stanley Cusack, £5 (no warning device, £3); Richard Lloyd Jarden, two charges, £2, £1 (failed to produce driver's licence, £5): Brian Charles Nicholas Rice, £1 (unlicensed trailer, £3); David Leslie Owen Taft, £5 (no warning device, £3); Alex John Wright, £5 (failed to produce driver’s licence, 45).

Exceeding heavy traffic licence: M. C. Burke, Ltd.. £S (exceeded axle weight. £2): Michael Vincent Poff, £5; G.

Chaffey, Ltd., £6: Christchurch Timber and Box Company, Ltd., £5 (exceeded certificate of fitness, £5). Failing to stop in distance between vehicles: Elwyn Hugh Wilson, £6. Careless use: Anthony Roy Williams, £lO, disqualified for three months. Exceeding 30 m.p.h. on a provisional licence: Allan Watts, £4 (no safety helmet, £2): Allan Murray McNaughton, £4 (exceeded 30 m.p.h. with no safety helmet, £2). Insufficient lights: Anthony Ross Lintott, £3; Charles Still Martin, £3 (no warrant of fitness, £5). No driver’s licence: Marina Ruiha Gibbons, £3. Operating a noisy motor vehicle: Jeffrey Patrick Watts, £5; James Rex Mealings, £5. Exceeding 40 m.p.h. with a trailer: James Jones, £5. Failing to keep to the left: Derek Mayo Carr, £6, disqualified for three months. Wrong class of driver’s licence: lan Ronald Bell, £3. Exceeding 55 m.p.h.: Jack Maurice Brunsden, £6: Noel Allan Orton, £7; Ronald Ramsay Trotter, £7; Peter Alexander Aitken, £B.

Carried a pillion passenger while holder of a provisional licence: Sherrill Margaret Bryce, £2.

Failing to comply with traffic lights: Graham Kevin Aldridge, £2 lOS. Drove while disqualified: Albert George Prescott, £3O, disqualification extended by one year. Failing to give way: Thomas Browning Burtt, costs only. (Before Messrs E. L. Tinker and H. N. Pyne, Justices of the Peace.) COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Lynleigh Edward Kiernan, aged 43, unemployed, was committed for trial on a charge of frequenting Hereford street on June 18 with felonious intent. He pleaded not guilty and was represented by Mr K. N. Hampton. Constable B. A. Smart said he observed Kiernan looking into parked cars in Hereford street on June 18. "At one stage he tried the door of a car, but was not able to open it.” he said. "When I confronted him with what I had observed, he denied looking into the cars and said that he would have done so if the car were a sports model or a new car, to admire it." Kiernan was remanded on bail to tha Supreme Court for trial.