MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youths Convicted On Three Burglary Charges

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31409, 30 June 1967, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youths Convicted On Three Burglary Charges

Two unemployed youths were convicted and remanded in custody until July 6, after they had pleaded guilty to three joint charges of burglary, before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court yesterday. David William Jones, aged 17, unemployed, and Roger Garth Marshall, aged 18, unemployed, were both refused bail. They were charged that on June 20 they broke and entered a shop at 348 Cashel street, the property of Esme Prudence Aldridge, and that on June 21 they broke and entered the same shop. They were also charged that on June 25 they broke and entered Eastern Dealers, 350 Cashel street Detective Sergeant A. B. Dalzell said the police bad searched the residence of the two youths at 212 Kilmore street and found the stolen goods. They had taken food worth about £3O from 348 Cashel street and goods worth £4O from Eastern Dealers, including a radio, a tape recorder and a guitar. "The defendants said they were unemployed and stole food for the girls they were living with,” said Detective Sergeant Dalzell. WILFUL DAMAGE Raymond Robert Williams, aged 28, an unemployed boilermaker, had broken two car aerials and bent a third so it could not be straightened, said Detective Sergeant Dalzell. Williams pleaded guilty to two charges. He was fined £5 for wilful damage to three car aerials • valued at £9), the property of Wayne Hart, and fined £3 for stealing an ornamental tiger (valued at £2) from Hart, both on June 27. He was ordered to make restitution of £ll. STOLE POWER CYCLE Allen Walter Barnes, aged 17, a soldier, was convicted on a charge of stealing a powercycle. valued at £75, from Nancy Lee on April 1. The case was adjourned until July 6 for a probation officer’s report. The defendant had worked for about five months as a gardener and had been lent the powercycle to get to work, said Detective Sergeant Dalzell. When he left his employment he had sold the cycle for £lO to Rex Russell, Ltd. SHOPLIFTING “I never use them, I don’t know why I did it,” said Francis Richard Fox, aged 55, a pensioner, who was convicted and fined £5 after pleading guilty to a charge of theft. He was charged with stealing a bottle of hair cream, valued at 4s 6d, and a packet of razor blades, valued at 2s 6d. from Woolworths (N.Z.), Ltd., on May 25 Detective Sergeant Dalzell said two shop assistants had observed Fox put a bottle into his pocket. W’hen asked to step back into the shop he had pulled out the bottle and thrown it on the floor, spilling the cream. Later, a packet of razor blades had been found under the chair tn which he had sat. He had been drinking. RECEIVING James Henry Frederick Martin, aged 50, a carpenter, was convicted and remanded on bail until July 6 for a probation officer’s report when he pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving. He was charged that on June 15 he received from Normal Cyril Lee, a portable radiogram, valued at £4B. and an electric heater, valued at £9, knowing them to have been stolen. Detective Sergeant Dalzell said a house had been broken and entered on June 8 and property valued at £B3 stolen. On June 27. two of the articles, a portable radiogram and heater, had been recovered from a secondhand dealer who had bought them from Martin. ASSAULT ADMITTED “I hit him because I didn’t like the look of him,” John Joseph Worters. aged 21, storeman, told the police when charged with assaulting Garfield Dingwall in Cathedral square on April 16. Worters pleaded guilty. The Magistrate fined him £2O. WILFUL DAMAGE A man who forced his way Into his wife’s flat was fined £7 10s and ordered to pay restitution of £7 on a charge of wilful damage. Sergeant Da zell said that Walter Edwin Race, aged 42, a worker, broke the door down at his wife’s flat and went in. The couple were separated and the defendant had no right to be on the premises.

MISCELLANEOUS PROSECUTIONS In other prosecutions brought by the Police Department the following convictions were entered and fines imposed:

Proceeding from stop sign when way was not clear: Yvonne Anne Soquet, £B. Exceeding 30 miles an hour: David Bruce Kettle, £6 (ordered to attend a course of lectures). Failing to produce driver’s licence: Barry Michael Crone, £lO. Minor in bar: John Hoglund, £4; David Julius Musgrove, £4; Graeme Peter Rennie, £4; Keith Leonard Stirling, £4. Careless use: Alfred Austin, £8; Gordon Sinclair Cotton, £8; Neville Charles Findlay, £B. Failing to give way to the right: David William Farnsworth, £8 (no warrant of fitness, £2): Irvine Leslie Carney, £5. Falling to notify deputy registrar of change of car ownership: William Wavne Anderson, £2. (Before Mr P. L. Molineaux, S.M.) DANGEROUS SPEED Guilford Bruce Todd, a doctor, of Christchurch, was convicted on a charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous. Traffic Officer L. Wilkinson said he followed a car driven by the defendant at a speed of 50 miles an hour along Hills road for four-tenths of a mile between Shirley road and North Avon road. For Todd, Mr N. D. Thomson said no other traffic was endangered by his client s driving. Todd was fined £l5 and disqualified from driving for 12 months. CHARGE REDUCED A charge of driving at a speed which might have been dangerous on April 16, against Warwick Dallas Darby, aged 20, a storeman, was reduced to one of exceeding 30 miles an hour. Darby (Mr J. H. M. Dawson) pleaded guilty to the amended charge and was fined £lO. Traffic Officer T. W. Hay said he followed a car being driven by Darby at a speed of 55 miles an hour at 1.40 a.m. in Victoria street on April 16. The Magistrate said he did not think there was a sufficient element of danger, considering all the circumstances, and he would reduce the charge. DISQUALIFIED Margaret Heniry, a married woman, was convicted and fined £4 and disqualified from driving for three months on a charge of going through a school patrol when not permit-

ted to do so. She pleaded not guilty and was represented by Mr B. S. McLaughlin. On a further charge of failing to display “L” plates to which she pleaded guilty, she was ordered to pay court costs only. FURTHER REMAND The sentencing of John Lester Gardvne, aged 17, unemployed, on a charge of receiving stolen cigarettes valued at £8 14s 2d on May 27, was further adjourned to July 4 for a medical report, when he appeared for sentence. The Magistrate said he was contemplating sending Gardyne to a detention centre. Gardyne was represented by Mr L. M. O’Reilly. ADJOURNED Three charges of driving while disqualified, two of supplying false information and two of exceeding 30 miles an hour against Brian Francis Johns, aged 20, a butcher, were all adjourned to July 11. The offences were alleged to have been committed between March 27 and June 6. He was represented by Mr S. G. Erber. No plea was taken. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) ADJOURNED PART HEARD Christopher John Perrin, aged 19, a buying agent (Mr P. G. S. Penlington) pleaded not guilty to a charge that on May 19 he behaved in a disorderly manner in High street. The case was adjourned till today. CHARGE WITHDRAWN When Patrick William Hammond, aged 45, unemployed, appeared on a charge that on April 13 he was deemed to be an idle and disorderly person in that he had insufficient lawful means of support Sergeant V. F. Townshend asked leave to withdraw the charge. Sergeant Townshend said Hammond had appeared in the Supreme Court recently where he had been sentenced on a number of other charges. Leave to withdraw the charge was granted. MISCELLANEOUS PROSECUTIONS Failed to ensure child’s attendance at school, Richard James Blair £2. Commenced land use without council consent, Selwyn Engineering Ltd. £lO. No radio licence: Andrew Jeffrey £2. Iwi Te Aika £l. Failed to furnish income returns: Allen Gordon Topia, two charges, £5, £5.