MAGISTRATE’S COURT MAN SENT FOR TRIAL ON TWO CHARGES

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31586, 25 January 1968, Page 7

MAGISTRATE’S COURT MAN SENT FOR TRIAL ON TWO CHARGES

An attack on a 72-year-old man and his two sisters at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Teddington, was described in the Magistrate’s Court yesterdaybefore Messrs A. H. Dale and J. T. Bisman, Justices of the Peace, when they committed Richard Edwards, also known as Mura Temapu, aged 27, a butcher, to the Supreme Court for trial. The charges against Edwards (Mr L. G. O’Reilly) are that on June 1 he burgled the Wheatsheaf Hotel and, with persons unknown, assaulted Francis John Kennedy* with intent to rob him. Edwards was granted bail. In evidence, Mr Kennedy said he had been staying at the hotel with his sister, Mrs Mary Elizabeth Packer, who was at that time licensee. He went to bed about H p.m. on May 31, and soon after midnight heard a sound in the hotel. A few moments later his bedroom door was pushed open and a torch was shone in his face. He was hit about the face about six] times. The assailant was wearing a peaked cap and had a handkerchief over most of his face. He appeared to be a thick-set Maori. The witness said he called to his sisters, and the assailant made off. The three occupants of the hotel went to the bedroom occupied by his two sisters, Mr Kennedy said. The room did not have a lock on the door. The power was off and the lights would not work. One of his sisters telephoned the police. The door was forced open by the three intruders, and two of them entered the room, one remaining at the door. The man in the peaked cap found the money under Mrs Packer’s bed. The men tore the telephone from the wall and threw it across the room, the witness said. Later he found that all the other telephones in the hotel had been similarly disconnected. Brian Paurakau Harrison, a prison inmate, said he had been convicted on a charge of burglary at the Wheatsheaf Hotel and was serving a threeyear term of imprisonment On May 31 he was with the accused at a house in Acton Street with a group of other men. They discussed isolated hotels and the possibility of “getting some gelly to knock off a tank.” The witness was stood down after he twice told Senior-Sergeant F. G. Mulcare he could not remember the night

Detective Sergeant D. K. White, of Invercargill, said that he found the accused at the Alliance freezing works and took him to the police station for questioning. After he had told the accused that he had a written statement from Harrison, Edwards agreed that he had been at the Wheatsheaf Hotel. The accused had told him that he was at the hotel with “Babe” Harrison and “Pinto” Kaimoana, but denied having anything to do with the beating of Mr Kennedy. When he told Edwards that the charge of aggravated robbery was being laid against him as well as a charge of burglary, the accused said to him, “guilty to the burglary, not guilty to that,” Detective Sergeant White said. CHARGES OF SODOMY Douglas Bruce McFarlane, aged 33. an Australian mechanic (Mr D. J. Hewitt), was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on five charges of sodomy and one charge of indecent assault on three boys aged 16 to 18, between September 30 and November 21. McFari lane was remanded on bail. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.) DISQUALIFIED “One wonders if you are a fit person to be in charge of a car—ever,” said the Magistrate to John Honi Koperu. Koperu, aged 27, a workman, was disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for six months and fined a total of $4O on three charges. He was charged that in Opawa Road on October 23 he drove carelessly, that he knowingly supplied false information to the police as to his identity, and that he drove without a licence. “At 9 p.m. Koperu drove a car north-west on Opawa Road and hit the rear of a parked car,” said Detective Sergeant E. S. Tuck. The car was extensively damaged. “He said he had taken his eyes off the road for a moment. He gave the constable a false name.” “In 1963 you were disqualified for dangerous driving, in 1964 you were disqualified for careless use, and in 1965 you were sent to gaol for driving while disqualified and failing to stop,” said the Magistrate. “Your record does not encourage me to help you.” 12 MONTHS GAOL Kevin Desmond Tyson, aged 24, a painter (Mr W. A. Wilson) was sentenced to gaol for 12 months when he appeared for sentence on two charges. He was sentenced to the year in gaol on a charge that on January 16 he took a car, the property of Keith Whittaker, and to three months in gaol for driving while disqualified, the sentences to run concurrently. His driver’s licence was cancelled for a further year, from August 22, 1968, to August 22, 1969. . “His problems are alcohol and a lack of an aim in life rather than criminality,” said Mr Wilson. “You are the person who decides to drink and I have a duty to protect the public from your actions after you have been drinking,” said the Magistrate. PUNCHED WIFE John Low, aged 24, a factory labourer, had punched his wife about the head and upper body, said Detective Sergeant Tuck. Low was fined $3O on a charge that on January 23 he assaulted Norma Low. He pleaded guilty. “He threatened to kill her and hit her head on the floor, pushing her wrist against the door,” said Detective Sergeant Tuck. “She left the house and when she returned he kicked her in the back.” DISQUALIFIED After pleading guilty to a charge that on November 11 he drove a car on Kerrs Road in a manner that might have been dangerous, Kevin John Harris, aged 19, a market gardener (Mr M. J. CashmereX. was fined $4O and disqualified from driving for 18 months. “At 8.35 p.m. he drove north on Kerrs Road and at Woodham Road drove through a stop sign in the intersection at 50 miles an hour,” said DCTective Sergeant Tuck. ■ “He tried to turn into Wainoni Road at a speed of 50 miles an hour. The car rolled over several times and Ayas severely damaged.” Mr Cashmere said Harris had just had an argument and was driving in a fury. THREW BOTTLE Wayne Curtis W’hear, aged 19, a lathe operator (Mr K. N. Hampton), was remanded until

January 31 for a probation officer’s report and sentence after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of causing wilful damage by throwing a bottle. He was charged that on September 9 he caused wilful damage, to the value of $3O, to roof fabric of a motor-vehicle, the property of Robert Rochford. "At 1.30 a.m. Rochford was driving in Cathedral Square and Whear threw a bottle at the car causing a cut in the roof fabric eight inches long,” said Detective Sergeant Tuck. FINED $l5 Charged with stealing a car rug from Owen John Price, on December 17, Peter John Somers, aged 44, a radio and television mechanic (Mr J. S. Bisphan) was fined $l5. The rug, taken from a parked car in Tuam Street, is valued at $6. CAR LEFT ROAD "At 10.40 p.m. on December 9 a car going south on Rossall Street turned left into Rhodes Street, got out of control, and ended up on the footpath,” said Detective Sergeant Tuck. Brian Athol Thretheway, aged 21, an electro-plater, was fined $25 on a charge of careless use. CARELESS USE John Henry Clifford, aged 44, a driver (Mr A. Hearn), was fined $8 on a charge that on November 30 he carelessly used a motor-vehicle on Victoria Street. Detective Sergeant Tuck said Clifford had struck a car stopped and waiting for the Montreal Street lights to change. The stationary car had been bumped forward to hit the next car. FINED $4 Charged that on August 24-25, 1967, she had damaged a New Zealand Police Department pillow case worth 80c, Lucy Adel Roberts, aged 30, unemployed, was fined $4 and ordered to make restitution of 80c. Detective Sergeant Tuck said Roberts had been a prisoner in the female cells at the time. RECEIVING Duane Selwyn Laws, aged 19, a greaser, was fined $lO after he had pleaded guilty to a charge that between November 12-27 he received from Kevin Warren McFarlane an airpistol, valued at $lO, knowing at the time it had been dishonestly obtained. FINED $25 Arthur Albert Brownie, aged 31, a machine operator (Mr M J. Glue), was fined $25 after pleading not guilty to a charge that he stole a water pump valued at $B, the property of Gordon George Templeton Smith, on September 9. GAVE FALSE AGE Irene Joyce Lister, aged 20, a machinist, was fined $lO on a charge that she gave false particulars of her age to the police. She was fined $3 on a charge that, being a minor, she was found in the public bar of the Caledonian Hotel. MINOR IN BAR Derek Harold Hillman Miller, aged 20, a student (Mr D. Marshall), was fined $3 after he had pleaded guilty to a charge that on November 25, as a minor, he bought liquor from C. McGuire, the manager of the Halswell Hotel. TRAFFIC PROSECUTIONS In traffic prosecutions brought by the police, convictions were entered and fined imposed as follows: Failing to give way to the right: Geoffrey Charles Harker, $lO and disqualified from driving for three months; Clarence Hurrell, $lO. Failing to report accident: Carl Owen Berube, $B. No warrant of fitness: Arthur Roland Burns, $4. (Before Mr P. L. Molineaux, S.M.) RECKLESS DRIVING A 21-year-old soldier from Waiouru Military Camp, who a traffic officer said was drinking beer from a bottle while overtaking cars on Fendalton Road on October 23, pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless driving. He was fined $5O and disqualified for one year. Traffic Officer Gavin Thomas Herridge said the driver, Stanley Edgar Lawson, attracted his attention by his excessive speed on Memorial Avenue. He turned and followed Lawson but was unable to stop him until Stratford Street. During this time, Lawson passed about 15 cars and appeared to be drinking from a bottle. In court Lawson said he did not think he had passed more than three cars and although his passenger was drinking he did not think he (Lawson) was. OTHER CHARGES In other prosecutions brought by the Transport Department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Stanley Edgar Lawson, $2O; Frederick John Scott, $l2; Michael John Walsh, $10; Gordon Wilmot Ragg, $l2; Charles William Arthur Cairns, $22; John

Francis Bradshaw, $l4 (failed to observe stop sign, $8); Gavin Murray Earnshaw, $l2; Betty Holland, $10; Graham Bruce McCaw, $10; lan Leslie Monk, $22; Earle Vaile Atkinson, $10; Ashley William Birchall, $10; Kevin Wayne Ellis, $l2; Nigel Leslie Fleet, $2O; John Frederick Gimblett, $l4; Robert James Hamilton, $10; Barry Don McNarn, $18; Shirley Anne Sandford, $10; Harold Percival Voice, $10; Trevor Ivan Watt, $l4; Aihlone Noreen Williams, $8; Alan Hector Abernethy, $l6; William Geoffrey Agnew, $l2; Betty Adrienne Andrews, $l2; Murray Charles Andrews, $10; William David Bartlett, $10; Walter Fairlie Bell, $2O: Lindsay Eric Blackburn, $l4: Stephen Bowker, $lO, disqualified for one month; George Edward Brown, $6; Peter Esmond Chapman, $l4; Barry Lee Smith, $l4; Neil Desmond Cogle, $10; Graham Edward Coombes, $3O; Maitland Gerald Donaldson, $l2; Sandra Lorraine Eastmond, $10; John Ronald Eivers, $10; Eileen Monica Fincham, $10; Roger Stew’art Gowans, $l6; John Seddon Hall, $lO (no driver’s licence, $8); William Frederick John Hatcher, $l6; Avon Reginald Hyde, $l4; Grahame Douglas Irving, $l4; Gary Malcolm Kennard, $l2; Jonathan Woodhouse Lee, $l2; William David Lee, $l2; Charles Seymour Luney, $10; Alan Graeme McEwan, $l2; James Adam McEwan, $2O; Alan Provo McKissock, $l2; Denis Raymond Maclennan, $l4; James William Meikle, $l4; Madge Leybourne Milford, $l2; Ross William Morrow, $l2 (no driver’s licence, $2O, disqualified for three months); Murray John Munro, $l4 (no warrant of fitness, $2); John Oakley, $10; Paul Graham O’Donnell, $l4; Kenneth Raymond Pawsey, $l4; Bosie William Peihopa, $l4 (no warrant of fitness, $6); Jon Ernest Pollard, $10; Craig Quested, $l4; Gregord Claude Rolton, $l4; Stephen Paul Smith, $10; Bernard Charles Stratford, $10; Graham Sidney Tulett, $10; Paul Andrew John Veitch, $l4 (failed to keep left, $l2, disqualified for six weeks); Edwin Dale Webb, $10; Robert Joseph Woolhouse, $l4. Failed to observe stop sign: Angela Mary Ward, $8 (no warrant of fitness, $2): Frederick James Neilson, $10; Kenneth Lester Earl, $8 (failed to give a signal leaving curb, $8; exceeding 30 miles an hour, $8); Daniel Mentink, $10; Philomena Cecelia Broom, $8: Melville Gordon Coles, $10; Wayne Leonard Archer, $10; John Thomas Brown, $8; Thomas Alan Ellis, $10; David William Proctor, $8; David Archibald ■ Smith, $10: Steven Paul Smith, $10; Owen Allan Crutchley, $B. Exceeded 55 miles an hour: John Keith Anderson, $l4; Thomas George Bayliss, $l4, disqualified for one month; Michael John Jamieson, $l6; Warren Raymond Caesar, $3O; Frederick Turner, $l5; Keith Alan Woor, * 2 No warrant of fitness: Jim Caras, $6; Alan William Bishop, $4 (wrong driver’s licence, $8); Trevor William Chambers, $2; Douglas Norman Cherry, $2; Raymond Gatehouse, $4; Allan Trethway Miller, $2; Bruce Kenneth Smart, $4; Pat Joyce, $2; Lesley June McDonald, costs only (failed to display “L sign, $6); Reginald James Phair, $2 (no warning device, $4). No driver’s licence: Kevin John Ross, $2O. disqualified for three months. Anthony Maxwell Bird. $6; Edwin James Finlay, $6: John Macbean Young, $4. Failed to produce driver s licence: Alexander Bruce, $10; Hori Malcolm, $10; James Thomas Pacy, $10; Andrew William McAuley. $10; Joseph Anthony Cook, $10; Walter Giles, $10; Murray George Hume, $lO (no warrant of fitness, $2); Kenneth William Jacob, $10; Graham Francis Straker, $10; Joshieua Shepherd, $lO. Failed to keep left: Nell George Stewart, $l2; Millard Waldrop, $l4; lan Keith McKain, $l4; Brian James Beattie, $l4; Elizabeth Margaret Livingstone, $l4, disqualified for one month. Careless driving: Benjamin Franklin Hayman, $l4; David Henry Johnston, $2O, disqualified for three months. Exceeded heavy traffic licence: Guthrey’s Freightways, Ltd, $l2 (exceeded axle weight, $12); Maiko Kaputone Pahl, $lO (exceeded axle weight, $10). Supplied false information; Desmond James Hunt, $l5 (wrong class of driver’s licence, $B, no foot-rest on motor cycle, $8). Insufficient lights: Terrence Cliff Green, $l2; Brian Ross Johnston, $6 (number plate not lit. $6). Exceeded 40 miles an hour in truck: Bernard David Henley, $l2; James Edward Ross, $l2. Cutting a corner: Michael John Radburn, $l2. Exceeded 45 miles an hour with pillion passenger: Murray John Bloxham, $l5. Insecure trailer: Keith Croft Gallety, $8; Charles Lincoln Suckling, $6 (no red rear light, $6). Proceeded from stop sign before way clear: Geoffrey Morton Bodger, $l2.

Failed to stop for traffic officer- Kevin Edward George Smith, $l2. Wrong class licence: Philip Noel Robinson, $8; Donald Michael Coulter, $B. Noisy motor vehicle: Stephen Robert Unwin, $lO (unable to stop, $10). • Crossed against traffic lights: James Wadley, $l2 (exceeded 30 miles an hour, $24, disqualified for six weeks). Passed on double lines: Kevin James Morris, $l5, disqualified for three months; Leslie Steven Clark, $l4, disqualified for three months. Parking offences: Frederick Smith, $6. Failed to notify change of ownership: Raymond Neville Francis, $2.