MAGISTRATE'S COURT Thief Apprehended By Off-duty Policeman

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31521, 8 November 1967, Page 8

MAGISTRATE'S COURT Thief Apprehended By Off-duty Policeman

An off-duty constable in j Hereford Street on Monday saw the accused with a cash box under his coat, said De-tective-Sergeant T. J. C. Joy when Edward Arthur Halligan appeared before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Halligan, aged 47, a worki man, pleaded guilty to stealing a cash box and contents to a value of 54.30 from G. S. Salter, a solicitor. Detective-Sergeant Joy said Halligan entered the office of the complainant about 3.30 p.m. on November 6 and took the cash box from an unlocked strongroom. He put the box under his coat, and left, but was seen by an off-duty constable. Halligan made off, but was apprehended. The cash box and contents were recovered intact, said Detective-Sergeant Stevenson. “I was just short of money —I did it on the spur of the moment,” said Halligan. The Magistrate said Halligan had “an awful record” of theft and other offences. Halligan was imprisoned for two months. BURGLARY Two youths who broke into a house at 74 Inwoods Road on October 21 and took property valued at $135 when the occupier was absent, returned the next day with three others and damaged wallpaper. Murray Kenneth Wilson, aged 18, an apprentice bookbinder (Mr A. K. Archer) and Roland Jack Moore, aged 17, a workman (Mr J. F. Burn), ■ pleaded guilty to the burgj lary of the house, and were remanded for probation reports and sentence on November 20. Bail was allowed. Detective-Sergeant Joy said the defendants were interviewed on November 6 and immediately admitted the offence. They said they had been to a nearby party on the night of Saturday, October 21, and because they knew the occupier of 74 Inwoods Road was away, went to the house and entered through a window. Two armchairs and a heater were taken. After returning the next day with the other youths, and causing damage they i brought back the furniture. One of the other youths had taken a toaster and Wilson took a pair of cuff-links, which he later returned. Feeling sorry for what they had done, the defendants got in touch with the complainant j indirectly about the incident. 1 Restitution was asked, but I the amount was not yet i known, said DetectiveSergeant Joy. i ATTEMPTED THEFT Mario Radeka, aged 28, a carpenter, was fined $3O and ordered to make restitution of 1112.70 when he was convicted ; of attempting to steal 10ft of copper piping on September 9. Radeka pleaded guilty. The complainant had disturbed the accused on his property at 95 Fitzgerald Avenue about 10 a.m., said Detective Sergeant Joy. Radeka had bent the tubing to fit it into his car, but on , realising he had been seen, ran ‘ off and drove away. Radeka was interviewed by 1 the police on September 25 and admitted the offence, he said. ’ ASSAULT , His client was quite shocked by the surroundings at Adding- ► ton Remand Prison, and the experience of seven days in cusi tody had had a salutary effect, said Mr W. S. Smith, counsel . for Brian Michael O’Connor. O’Connor, aged 21, a lino layer, pleaded guilty to assault- , ing Peter A. Kibblewhite on ► October 22. Mr Smith said that the asI sault arose out of an argument over payment to the complain- , ant for a car ride from a hotel to a party. ' O’Connor had paid some . money, but the complainant k had wanted more. The complainant had hit a car belong- ' ing to a friend of O’Connor while backing out of the drive, ► and had hit the fence of the house, and O’Connor had been ' knocked over after he refused i to pay more, said Mr Smith. Detective Sergeant Joy said the complainant had spent two days in hospital as a result of being beaten and kicked by O’Connor. O'Connor was fined $4O. UNLAWFUL INTERCOURSE Barry Douglas Timlin, aged 21, a woolstore labourer, pleaded guilty to having sexual intercourse with a girl then aged 15 years 11 months, on November 4, and was remanded on bail until November 20 for a probation report and sentence. Detective Sergeant Joy said the girl had run away from home on October 23 and was found in a flat where she had been living with the defendant. INDECENT LANGUAGE A man who used indecent language outside the Christchurch Public Hospital when a police patrol car was waiting at the traffic lights in Riccarton Road on November 6, was fined $lO. Richard Norman Jeffreys, aged 51, a woolstore labourer, pleaded guilty to using indecent language in a public place. Jeffreys had been drinking but was not drunk, said Detective Sergeant Joy. FINED $2O If he were to take Into account the defendant’s performance in the witness-box, he would prefer the evidence of another witness, but this was not necessary, said the Magistrate when Jack Carroll Hunter, aged 59, a taxi driver, pleaded not guilty to carelessly using a car in Bealey Avenue on August 26. In convicting Hunter, the Magistrate said he had not acted with proper care. The charge arose out of a collision on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Victoria Street. Hunter was fined $2O. STOLE FURNISHINGS Michele Robin Burford, aged 18, a nurse aid, was fined $l5 when she pleaded guilty to stealing furnishings valued at $13.50, the property of Lenore Oakley, on October 7. Detective-Sergeant Joy said Burford freely admitted having stolen the property from a Salisbury Street flat. The return of the property was ordered. FOUR CHARGES , W’hen he attended a motor accident at Hei Hei Road at 9.15 p.m. on July 12. he found the driver involved, John Robert Godley Allpress, had no driver's licence, said Constable A. W. Berry. Allpress, who did not appear in court, was convicted of carelessly using a car, of having no driver's licence, of having no warrant of fitness, and of

using an unlicensed motor I vehicle. He was fined a total of $57 and was disqualified for a total of six months. DISMISSED A charge of serving a minor in a hotel bar at Lincoln on September 16 against William James Kortegast, aged 43, a barman, was dismissed. Kortegast was represented by Mr G. T. Mahon. MISCELLANEOUS Miscellaneous charges heard with convictions entered (court costs $3 on each charge) were: Careless use: Donald John McKellar, $4O, disqualified for six months cumulative on a current period of disqualification; Robin Barry Gowen, $l5. Failed to produce driver’s licence for endorsement: Robert Charles Purdy (two charges), $5O. Failed to give way when turning right: Dorothy Millicent Williamson, $l6. Minor found in bar: George Arthur Kirner, $6 (gave false information, $10). „ - Consumed beer near dance hall: Roger Lewis Manson, $6. (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) TRAFFIC CHARGES Prosecutions brought about by the Christchurch City traffic department with convictions entered (court costs $3 on each charge) were: Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Jane Patience Wakeman, $8: Pau’ Clifford Deyell, $10; Peter Morriss George Blaxall, $l6; George Ernest Stevens, $8: Peter Leslie Chaney. $7; Peter Clifford Bargas, $10; Terence lan Down, $9; Bernard Callanan, $7; Ronald Chambler, $11; John James Plummer. $7: John William Crofts, $7; Donald Campbell Davidson. $l4; David Miles Diekson, $10: David Lawrence Duphy, $lO (insufficient lights. $5); Nadia Marguerita Farnley, $l2; Garry Raymond Johannis, $l2; Kevin John Glanville, $5; John Guy, $10; John Perry Hooper, $10; John William Hume, $6 (failed to stop for traffic officer, $6). Leroy Tyrone Langdowne, $l3; Maurice Chapman Lintott, $l6, and ordered to attend traffic lectures; Eoin James Macauley. $l2: John Michael McKenzie, $10: Christopher Wayne Morgan, $l3; Ross Moulton, $9: John Edward Clare Nicholson, $l7; Neville Odgers, $l3; Donald Bruce Patchett, $10: Brian George Rennie, $10; Roger John Shepherd, $l6: Muriel Kathleen Smith, $9; Leslie Roland Taylor, $6: Bruce Malcolm Tibble, $l2: Leonard John W’alsh, $9; Thomas Edward Walsh, $l3; Herbert Wilkinson, $l3; Robin Malcolm Wright. $3. Failed to stop at a compulsory stop: Margot Johnstone, $11; Albert Bernard Duke, $l5, disqualified from driving for two months (failed to produce driver's licence, $5); Jeanne Edgar, $l3; Robert James Fraser, $l4: Steve Louros, $11: Eileen Elizabeth Mitton, $l3; Hamilton Charles Rapsey, $ll. Careless use of a motor vehicle: Graham Veale, $l5, disqualified from driving for two months; Mary Jane Perry, $5 (failed to stop after an accident, $l5, and licence cancelled for three months). Failed to give way: John Richard Bunker, $l2: Robert Allanby Coop, $l2; Peter John Britnell. $l5: Patrick Joseph Creedy, $ll (ordered to attend coarse of traffic lectures); Kevin Maurice McSeveny, $2O; Lynette Anne Pooley, $9 and licence cancelled for three months; Robert Battersby Staplesforth. $l5; Graham Acheson Trotter. $l5, and ordered to attend traffic improvement school. Failed to comply with traffic lights: Robert Edward Bolland, $l5; Bruce Albert Coulbeck, $l3; David Garfield Holmes, $11; Vernon John McGrath, $l5: John Wylie McKerrow, $3; Michael Bernard Power, $2O; Edna Jean Price, $l3; Murray John Ramsay, $l4. Drove an unlicensed motorvehicle: Kani Kingi, $l6 (no warrant of fitness, $5); Allin Campbell Cook, $7: Robert George Flygenring, $lO (used unauthorised licence label, $l5, disqualified from driving for four months): Barton Reginald Johnson, $l5; Ross Franklin Smith, $4. No warrant of fitness: Bruce Alexander Weir, $4; Winston Raynor Carney. $8; Andrew George Corstorphine, $5; Trevor Gordon Gage, $6; Athlyn Isobel Gordon, $10: Colin Harvey, $10; Sidney Walter Hickmott, $1; Tampis Nicholas. $4; Andrea Barbara Sewell. $2 (unlicensed motor-cycle, $lO, and disqualified for six months); William Henry Smith, $2; Donald George Soutter, $2. Parkng offences: William James Boot, $2; Desmond Ronald Cooke, $2: Charles Emery Field, $2; Frederick Arthur Keith Gerrard, $2: Thomas Alfred Griffiths, $6; John Hall, $6: Douglas Raymond Hessey. $6; Robyn Lenard Hunt, $2: James Mac Cormack, $2; Mayanne MacKay, $2; Roderick Bruce McLennan, $2: Nalda Mildred Mitchell, $6: Valerie Margaret Flatman, $3; Archibald Garnett Murray, $2: John Charles Partleton. $2: Heather Anne Combs, $6: Roger Aylmer Rattray, $2: Roger Heath Richardson. $2; Michael Cornelius Ryan. $6: George Hugh Taylor, $6; Jan Vryenhoek, $2; Bruce Raymond Walden, $2: Thomas Walker, $2; John Lupton Wilson, two charges, $4; Simon Hallows Wood, $2. Supplied false information: Kenneth Sydney Johns. $l5 (exceeded 30 miles an hour, $l2). No driver’s licence: Kerry Frederick Malzard, $5 and disqualified for three months; Bernard Michael Cherry, $4: Stephen Patrick Murphy, $lO and licence cancelled for two months. Failed to keep left: Warren Neill Clemens, $8: Richard John Norton, $6; Timothy James O’Donnell, $7. Employed unlicensed driver: Bernard'Ryan, trading as Ryan Brothers, $25. Travelled too close behind vehicle: Colin Richard Quartly, $11; George William Campbell, $4. Failed to display L plate: Christine Susan Perry, $5. No safety chain: Norman Frederick Soper, $lO. No front light: Gregor Bryan Stapp. $4: Donald Welch, $4. Failed to keep left: Ernest Albert Wehner, $7. Failed to signal intention to draw out from right: Margaret Elizabeth Morris. $6. No red rear light on goods service vehicle parked at night: Linford Charles Kerr, two charges, $9 on each: John Leo Redden, $2 (no warrant of fitness, $8). Wrong class of driver’s licence: Kennon Anthony Kallil. $4 Failed to carry certificate of fitness: Empire Express Company. Ltd, $lO. Permitted unlicensed driver to drive: Frank Albert Bush, $B. CIVIL CASES (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made on judgment summonses: R. Adams, labourer, Darfield, to pay R. T. and J. Bailey $8.90, in default five days’ imprisonment, warrant suspended while $2 a week is paid: John Stuart Barr, labourer, Tauiwi Crescent, to pay Denton’s Motors, Ltd, $115.22 (62 days or $2 a week); S. K. Boese, railway worker, Torlesse Street, to pay the Christchurch City Council $52.75 (29 days or $2 a week). P. H. Birchfield, workman, Grahams Road, to pay A. D. Hodgson $82.43 (43 days or $1 a i week); K. Clark, workman, Ottawa Road, to pay E. G. (McDonald. Ltd, $9 (six days or I $2 a week); D. L. Dunphy. iHackthorne Road, to pay Christ-

church City Council $17.58 (13 j days or $2 a week). S. E. Crowley, dye setter. Wilsons Road, to pay Hill, Lee and Scott $18.60 (10 days or $1 a week); M. P. McAlister, labourer, Courteney Street, to pay Julia Gray Florist $l2 70 (seven days or $2 a week); Arthur v Le Bretton, labourer, Burke Street, to pay Maddens and Richards, Ltd. $16.44 (nine days or $2 a week). L. J. Mealings, engineer, Tram Road, Kaiapoi, to pay Universal Business Directories. Ltd, $22.50 (13 days or $2 a week); A. T. Meikle, labourer. Greenpark, to pay Maddens and Richards, Ltd. $12.92 (seven days or $2 a week); G. Meikle, workman, Riley Crescent, to pay Ferry Road Garage, Ltd, $73.90 <4O days or $1 a week). E. Munro, workman, Thackeray Street, to pay Beath and Company. Ltd. $59 (33 days or $5 a week); C. J. Perrin, worker. Conway Street, to pay J. Hall and Company, Ltd, $28.50 (16 days or $2 a week): A. Pope, driver, Morrison Avenue, to pay W. R. Paterson $33.77 (19 days or $2 a week) Kathleen Una Powell, married, Waltham Road, to pay Raymond, Donnelly and Company $91.69 (46 days or $1 a week); Grant William Sumner, workman, Roker Street, to pay Robert Francis. Ltd, $45.98 (26 days or $2 a week); A. T. Vincent, worker, Farquhars Road, to pay A. R. Collins $9.75 (six days). Graham Walsh, labourer, Salisbury Street, to pay Fell and Harley $l4 (eight days or $5 a week); J. Watson, labourer, Tonks Street, to pay Christchurch Press Company, Ltd, $8.47 (five days or 50c a week): J. Watson, workman, Tonks Street, to pay Art Cabinet Company, Ltd, $313.15 (90 days or $1.50 -a week). John McGregor Watson, labourer. Tonks Street, to pay Mason Struthers and Company, Ltd. $16.75 (nine days or $1 a week): Peter Albert Wright, mechanic, Bridge Street, to pay McKay Metal Products, Ltd. $7.50 (five days).