MAGISTRATE’S COURT Man Convicted Of Stealing $63 From Till Of Shop

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31579, 17 January 1968, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Man Convicted Of Stealing $63 From Till Of Shop

When the owner of the Wel-come-Inn hamburger bar, John Ernest Matthews, checked his till in the early hours of September 9, 1967, he found $63 in cash missing, Mr ,K. H. J. Headifen, S.M., was told in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Albert Heaton Savin, aged 22, a truck driver (Mr R. G. Blunt), pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing the money. After evidence had been beard, Savin was convicted and remanded until January 23 for a probation report and sentence.

Evidence was given by other employees of the bar that Savin had taken money from the till, and at one stage, his wallet was lying by the till.

Savin said that he had taken the money from the till to count it to see if sales had altered since a new sign outside the shop had been erected. He had been drinking during the evening.’ He did not know who had taken the money, or where the money “I would like to know a little about his mental condition,” said the Magistrate when calling for a probation report. PERIODIC DETENTION “With this record you are heading for borstal,” the Magistrate told a 17-year-old student, Michael Edward Hall, when he sentenced him to six months at the periodic detention centre in Bristol Street for burglary of the home of O. T. Gough, at 22 Bryndwr Road, on November 18. “You have already been placed on probation twice in the last three months for theft and false pretences, and now you have graduated to burglary. You have not responded to probation,” the Magistrate said. FINED $5O The accused thought it a disgrace to be on probation and decided it would be better to be in prison, said Mr R. G. Blunt, counsel for Allan James Riddle, aged 21, a welder. Riddle pleaded guilty to the burglary of Hay’s, Ltd, 761 Colombo Street, on December 9. Senior-Sergeant J. M. Phelan said that about 11.15 p.m. the nightwatchman on the premises heard a noise and saw the defendant. The police were called. Riddle had climbed up a drainpipe by the side of the building and had entered through a boarded window, said Senior-Sergeant Phelan. He claimed he had only taken dockets.

When imposing a fine of $5O, the Magistrate said it was a stupid act, and rather childish. Mr Blunt said Riddle was drunk and continued making a noise until he was noticed. In the morning he had changed his mind about going to prison. OBSCENE LANGUAGE

“You are prone to this sort of behaviour. I see you have five previous convictions for drunkenness and obscene language,” said the Magistrate to Doreen Frances Paviell, aged 44, a domestic. Paviell pleaded guilty to using obscene language in

Springfield Road on December 12. and was fined $4O. Senior-Sergeant Phelan said that when the police were called to a domestic dispute about 3.10 a.m. Paviell was screaming obscenities at her husband. She was warned to desist, but did not. A constable on the footpath could hear the language. FALSE PRETENCES Lester Stewart Chambers, aged 22, a driver’s assistant, was remanded in custody until January 23 for sentence on a charge of obtaining $5O from the Esplanade Hotel, New Brighton, by false pretences involving a cheque on November 23, 1967. Senior-Sergeant Phelan said that on November 13 Chambers stayed at the house of a Naenae man in Wellington. On November 23 he cashed a cheque at the hotel, where he was staying with a girl.

Chambers admitted to the police that he stole the cheque while he was staying with the man in Naenae. NAME SUPPRESSED A man whose name was suppressed was fined $l5 when he pleaded guilty and was convicted on a charge of assault yesterday at 2.30 a.m. The Magistrate refused an application from counsel, Mr G. R. Lascelles, that the accused be discharged without conviction under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act. Mr Lascelles said the assault arose out of an unfortunate argument between two good friends. Both had been to a party, and the accused hit his friend with a bottle. Because of the remorse he felt, he telephoned the police, but the friend did not want to lay a charge. FINED S 5 John Desmond Corcoran, aged 40, an unemployed clerk, was fined $5 when he pleaded guilty to a charge of being found drunk in a public place, having been convicted of a similar offence on December 7. The Magistrate said he would make no default condition. MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES Miscellaneous prosecutions with convictions entered (court costs $5 on each charge) were: Failed to give way to the right: Paul Nicholas Anticich, $l5; David McGregor Laing, $l5; Frederick Colinson Watson, $l2. Failed to stop at stop sign: Edwin Lynn Boon, $2O. In possession of liquor near dance hall: Geoffrey Bell, $6; David Rodney Bufrows. $6. Cast offensive matter in a public place: Michael Hart. $lO. Minor found in bottle store: Kenneth Raymond Wilson, $lO. (Before Mr P. L. Molineaux, S.M.) ESCAPED FROM CUSTODY George Charles Samuel Churchward, aged 21, a metal polisher (Mr R. F. B. Perry), was convicted and fined $3O after pleading not guilty to a charge of escaping from the custody of a constable who had arrested him in Cathedral Square on the evening of November 30 for fighting with another youth. Churchward’s defence was that a second constable who arrived on the scene, after the first constable had left in pursuit of the other youth, had ordered him and other bystanders to move on. Churchward said he accordingly went to a nearby chip bar, but on return to the scene of the fight found both constables gone, and so went home. Churchward admitted to Senior-Sergeant E. S. Tuck, who prosecuted, thdt he had not told the second constable that he had been placed under arrest—and the Magistrate, in his decision, s>aid that Churchward should have remained there. The second constable’s Instructions did not, he held, release Churchward from arrest.

The Magistrate also placed Churchward on 12 months pro-

bation, on the epedal condition that he does not loiter in Cathedral Square at night. Churchward was previously convicted and fined $2O on a charge of fighting, to which he had pleaded guilty. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES On judgment summonses, R. R. Williams, labourer, Oram Avenue, was ordered to pay R. H. Campbell, farmworker, of Culverden, $168.50, in default 84 days imprisonment, the warrant suspended on payment of $2 a week; and Una Whitelaw, widow, Clyde Road, was ordered to pay Family Fashions, Ltd, $14.55, in default seven days’ imprisonment, the warrant suspended' on payment of $1 a (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) RECEIVING CHARGE Stephen Patrick Longley, aged 18, a plasterer, was fined $lO, and placed on probation for IS months, when sentenced on a charge of receiving an electric toaster, valued at $3.15, knowing it to have been stolen. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley,

S.M.) In prosecutions brought by the Christchurch City Council traffic department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows, with costs of $5 on each charge. Exceeded 30 miles an hour: James Gordon Childs Street, $5: Jill Adrey, SB; William Valentine Dave Bartlett, $6; Keith Robert Blick, $8; John Leonard Bowman, $8; Eric Walter Butterfield, $8; Peter Matthew Carr, $B, disqualified for three months; Robert Marshall Carter, $8; Noel Ralph Chambers, $8; Alan James Cooper, $6 (failed to display “L” signs, $3), disqualified for six weeks; William Peter Dow, $6; Robert Macklin Duncan, $8; Murray George Hume, $10; Leslie Basil Johnson, $8; Lindsay Graeme Jones, $8; Hilda Latham, $8; Patrick Desmond John Leahy, $B, disqualified for three months; Maurice Raymond Leonard, $10; Peter William Lilley, $8; Philip Robert Lissaman, $5; Albert Charles Lockley, $l2; Graham George Lockwood, $3; Andrew Charles McDougall, $8; Arthur Leslie Montgomery, $8; John Robert Morris, $2; Stephen Jeffery Palmer, $3 (no safety helmet, $2); John William Powell, $l5 (no drivef’s licence, $10); Arthur Brandon Power, $lO, disqualified for two months; Bruce Kenneth Robertson, $10; Anthony John Rodgers, $9; Robin Bernard Savill, $10; Trevor George Scott, $8: Darryl John Sutton, $8; Kent William Vaux, $8; Edward Richardson Walsh. $8; Gaeme George Wilce, $8; James Brown Williams. $9: Paul Hedley Wills, $8; Darryl Edward Williams, $8; Hamish Willems, $B. Parking offences: Donald James Bowie, s3;' William Keith Bradford, $2; David John Broomhead, $2; Richard George Brittenden, $2; Peter Edward Burrell, $2; Patrick William Lake, $3 (second charge, $3); Douglas Young, $3; Sydney Dickinson, $3; Ronald Dominic Dineen, $2; William Stephen Elsom, $3; Rayleen Ferguson, $2; Lawrence Eustace Graham, $2; Beverly Lois Harper, $6; Marie Ellen Henderson, $2; Austin Lewis Holmes, $2; Percy William Jarden, $6; Joy Doreen Lavin, $2; James Fenwick Martin. $6; Rosa Marion Ellen McIntyre. $2: Lorna Lorraine McKay, $2; Robin McKinney. $3; Leslie Ernest Stanley Mead, $2; Robert Anthony Pearson, $6; Trevor Warren Robb, $2; Alfred Raymond Sammons, $6; William Desmond Sheenan, $2; Kenneth Clive Snow, $2 (second charge, $3); Edith Renee Stricker, $2; Maurice Alfred Edward Tomlinson, $2; Gavin Topp, $2; Ralph van Ysselsteyn, $4: Robert Johannes van Pulten Nishof, $6; Herbert Harold Wilson, $2; John Wood, $2.

Careless use: Anthony Fomai Stowers, $lO (failed to stop after accident, $15); Graham Claude Mitchell, $10; Robert John Blain, $l5, disqualified for six months; Raymond Campbell Bryan, $2O, disqualified for three months; Russel James Morrison, $2O, disqualified for three months; Frederick Harrington Wiese, $7. Failed to stop at a compulsory stop: Paul William Rowe, $6; Tisch Sheila Harriet, $5; lan David Wright, $5; Jerome Cuddy, $10; Joseph Frederick Downes, »15: William Henry Fielding, Sl2 (no warrant of fitness, »s>; Janet Elizabeth Radford, $3.

Failed to give way to the right: Trevor Edward Fletcher, *2O; Murray Douglas James, *2O; Hughy O’Keefe, *2O. Inappropriate driver’s licence: stephen Patrick Murphy,

No driver’s licence: Anthony Maurice Blacklock. *lO, disqualified from driving for six months; George Arneric, (IS (no warrant of fitness, *7); David Craig Nlkora, *5, disqualified for six months; Terence Andrew Harper, *2O, disqualified for six months; Riria Turupa Petras, *lO, disqualified from driving for six months; Wayne Albert Tapper, *lO, disqualified tor six months; Peter John Joseph Turner, *10; Roderick Bryan Turner, *2, Unlicensed motor vehicle: Arthur Raymond Thompson, *10; James Morton, *7; 'Allan George Robinson, *3O, disqualified for six months. „. F u tle ? , t 0 dis P>ay L sign: Michael John Farley, *2. disqualified for three months; Fareni Mareko, *lO. Overloaded heavy traffic licence: Christopher Brian Caddick, *7. Insufficient lights: Murray William Clemens. *lO (no warrant of fitness, *2); Robert Gerrets, *10: Terence Andrew Kinnaird. *7. Failed to carry heavy traffic licence: Norman Charles Cowles, *3; James William Donaldson. *10; -Walter Giles, •10; N.Z. Express Company, Ltd, No warrant of fitness: Allan Gordon Fleming, *5: Brown Fuimoano, *2; George Alfred Hay; *10;. Patrick Hooper, *2 (permitted unlicensed driver to drive, *5); Noeline Margaret Watts, *lO. Operated noisy motor vehicle: Gregory Edward Hobson. *lO. No certificate of fitness: Linford Dixon Charles Kerr, *2O; Stewart and Priest, Ltd, *lO. Failed to comply with traffic Ughts: Graham Arthur Kirby, Failed to supply information: Herbert McCarthy, *lO. Failed to wear vision aids: Gordon Keith Macpherson, *lO. Shipping Telegrams AUCKLAND, January 16. Arrived.—Kowhai (1.45 a.m.), Tauranga. Sailed.—Arnold Maersk (1.50 p.m.), Marsden Point; Japan Rimu (5.38 p.m.),. Napier. To Sail.—Monterey <S p.m.), Sydney; Kirribiili (6 p.m.), Europe. DUNEDIN. January 16. Arrived.—Hawea (6.30 a.m.), Lyttelton: Wellington Maru (7 a.m.), Timaru; Leuve Lloyd (6 p.m.), Timaru: U.S.S. Calcaterra (1.30 p.m.). sea. Sailed.—Wellington Maru (2 p.m.), Bluff; Hawea (4 p.m.), Lyttelton. TIMARU, January 16. Sailed—Holmwood (4 p.m.), Lyttelton.