MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youth Turned Lights Off In High-Speed Chase

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31728, 11 July 1968, Page 6

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Youth Turned Lights Off In High-Speed Chase

Evidence that a youth of 19, who had a licence to drive only a motor-cycle, had been chased at high speed when he was driving a car with Its lights off after he had nearly run over a traffic officer, was given to Mr P. L. Molineaux, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Robert William Duff, a tool and diemaker (Mr J. R. JMiilligan), was convicted on* his pleas of guilty of reckless driving, and of failing to stop for a traffic officer, on May 25 He was remanded on bail for a probation officer’s report and sentence.

Traffic Officer J. P. Bowcock sitid that he was talking ta another motorist outside the Hornby Working Men’s Club in Carmen Road, when he heard Duff driving at a high speed west along the Main South Road. Duff turned right into Carmen Road, and the traffic officer walked to the middle of the road, signalled the car to stop, and shone the torch in Duff’s eyes. The car slowed, but when about 10 yards away steered straight towards the traffic officer and accelerated hard. The traffic officer jumped back but said that he was not quick enough. The car hit his right hand and knocked his torch away. He was wearing his reflector belt.

He then leapt into his car and gave pursuit. As he approached the railway line when the other car was about 75 yards ahead, Duff switched out his lights, braked hard and made a left turn into Waterloo Road.

Traffic Officer Bowcock said that he was then about seven car lengths behind, with his red light flashing and siren sounding.

Duff gained to 62 miles an hour, and overtook two cars on the wrong side on a left bend, before Hei Het Road. Duff continued at the same speed at the intersection of Gilberthorpes Road and overtook a car which w’as stationary at the stop sign there, still with his lights out. Two cars coming from the left over the railway line had to brake hard to avoid an accident. The Traffic Officer said that he then lost ground but caught up again near Finsbury Street, where Duff passed another car at 65 miles an hour. Duff then swung sharply into Brixton Street with his right wheels off the ground, accelerated to 47 miles an hour, and went into the gravel. His car snaked from side to' side, and at a right-hand bend left the road, crossed a paddock and crashed into a tree. Duff -had been very upset and had burst into tears, said the traffic officer. He had only a motor-cycle licence. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) JOINT CHARGES Rex Patrick Harkin, aged 19. an unemployed workman, and Alan Terence Walsh, aged 24, a sheet metal worker, were convicted and remanded in custody to July 17 for sentence on joint charges of burglary of the Central Garage, Cheviot, on July 5, and theft of a battery, petrol and other articles valued at 128.40, the property of Service Transport and Agency, Ltd, Amberley, on July 4. They pleaded guilty to both charges. Sergeant V. F. Townshend said the accused were apprehended after one had been seen carrying a can from the Central Garage. Properly valued at $42.18 taken from the garage was recovered in theii possession. HANDBAG THEFTS Jessie May Collier, aged 25, unemployed, was convicted and remanded on bail to July 17 for sentence on six charges of theft of handbags and contents of a total value of $139.40, a charge of forging a Post Office withdrawal receipt for $lOO, and two charges of obtaining clothing valued at $85.39 by a false pretence in May. She pleaded guilty. THEFT OF CORNET Michael Edward Hall, aged 17, was sentenced to another four months periodic detention when he appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing a cornet, valued at $4O, the property of the Salvation Army, on June 5. Mr R. J. Allan, for the accused, said Hall had played a relatively minor part in the offence. His record was not a good one but he was young enough to change. He had obtained a job and had volunteered to do national service. TOOK VEHICLE John Richard Lamont, aged 19, an unemployed workman, and lan Thomas Rae, aged 17, an apprentice\carpenter, were each convicted' and remanded on bail to July 17 for sentence on a charge of unlawfully taking a utility vehicle, valued at $l6OO, on July 10. Lamont was convicted and remanded to the same date for sentence on a charge of unlawfully interfering with 'a car valued at $l7O on July 10, and Rae on a charge of having possession of tools intended for the taking of a motor vehicle Accused pleaded guilty to all charges. RECEIVING Six charges of receiving between June 4 and June 18 tinned fruit and coffee of a total value of $146.88, the property of J. Rattray and Son, Ltd, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained were admitted by Frederick John Kerral Stevens, aged 34, a warehouse truck driver (Mr G. T. Mahon). Sergeant Townshend said the accused, who was employed by the company, obtained the goods by approaching a fellow employee. He had heavy finan*cial commitments and sold the goods for about $4O. He paid nothing for them.

FRAUD On a charge of obtaining credit to the value of $13.40 by fraud at Dunedin between June ./• and June 12, Mervyn Eric Crosswell, aged 45. a boiler labourer, was convicted

and remanded in custody to July 17 for sentence. He pleaded guilty.

Sergeant Townshend said accused left the Hotel Dunedin without paying his account for $13.40. DISCHARGED A girl, whose name was suppressed (Mr G. T. Mahon), was discharged without conviction under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act when she appeared for sentence on a charge of theft as a servant of $2 from D.1.C., Ltd. DISCHARGED RIFLE Peter Maurice Johnson (Mr P. G... 5. Penlington), Angus James McGregor, and John Frederick Parsons (Mr R. J. de Gold!) were each convicted and fined $lO on a charge of discharging a .303 rifle at Amberley on March 15,. and $3 on a charge of procuring the rifle without a permit on the same date. They pleaded guilty. Sergeant Townshend said a nurtber of Amberley residents were disturbed by shots on the night of March 15. The accused were later interviewed and admitted shooting at beer cans on an embankment. They had no permit to obtain the rifle. LIQUOR OFFENCES Minors found In hotel bar: Barry Evans, $2O; Stanley David Neilson, $l5 (gave false particulars, $15); Materori Pani, $lO (gave false particulars, $10); John Kenneth Tyson, $lO (gave false particulars, $10); Maxwell Major Dyhrberg, $2O; Graham Victor Lintern, $2O; Annette Rose McLeay, $10; Robert Noel Valentine, $10: James Veitch, $2O; Cecilia Ellen West, $l5. Supplied minor with liquor: Dimitri Pileff, $3. TRAFFIC OFFENCES In police traffic prosecutions convictions were entered and flues imposed as follows: Careless use of motor vehicle: John Gary Tipler, $l5 (drove while disqualified. $20); Allen Edwin Boilington, convicted and discharged. Failed to give way to the right: Margaret Flora Adams, $2O. Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Walter Benjamin Syder, $l2. Failed to give way at sign: Thomas Anthony Moran, $2O. (Before Messrs H. E. Pyne and C. E. Wilkins. Justices of the Peace.) COMMITTED FOR TRIAL lan Murray Clegg, aged 35, a scrap metal dealer, and Malcolm Andrew McLachlan, aged 40, a truck driver, were committed for trial in the Supreme Court on a joint charge of stealing a drum of telephone cable valued at $423.60, the property of the Post Office, on or about June 15. They pleaded not guilty and were granted bail. Mr R. L. Kerr appeared for Clegg and Mr W. R. Johnston for McLachlan. (Before Mr P. L. Molineaux, S.M.) TRAFFIC OFFENCES In prosecutions brought by the Transport Department, convictions were entered and fines were imposed as follows:

Exceeded 30 miles an hour: Hugh Colin Gray, $24; Robert Keith Moir, $3O; Noel Stanley Kennard, $10; Richard William Rains, $l2; Robert Balfour Johnston, $25. Rodger Keith Darwyn, $10; Ragud Derry, $l5; John Alexander Dewar, $l5; Arthur James Duncan, $27; Joseph Edwin Garner, $l5; Brian Ghidcchi, $27: Trevor Charles Gottermeyer. $lO. Mary Cathleen-Reckham, $lO (no warrant of fitness. $4); Rovi Rule, $10; Elizabeth Catherine Thorpe, $10; Brian Dudley Andrews. $2O; Gordon Muir Brown, $10; Alistair Godfrey Burbury, $25; Peter Charles Clayton, $25; Henry Grant Jamieson, $4O; Kathleen Kenny, Richard Benjamin Lamb, $27; Moira Imelda Martin, $10; Ronald Joseph Mason, $10; Percival Arthur Morrell, $10; Peter Ivan Murrell, $l5; Peter Dexter Orr, $25; Brian James Gibson, $10; John Kenneth Fenwick, $27; lan Percy Gillman, $10; Murray David Finch. $27; Leon Dixey, $2O; Neil Hagglow, $10; Susannah Rosatuna Jack, $l2; Patrick Maurice Beadle, $35 and licence cancelled for one month (failed to produce driver's licence, $8); Brian Thomas Beard, $10; Horry Holland, $l2; Desmonde Clark, $45; Stanley Cruikshank, $10; Bernard David Henley, $27; Paul Francis Le Lievre, $2O; George Nelson, $10; Lester Alfred Osburn, $6; Garry John Reardon, $l5; Marguerite Lucy Rhodes, $l2; Elizabeth Margaret Ross, $10; David Allan Scott, $2O; Ronald Alan Shackleton, $4O; Kathleen Singleton,' $25; Eileen Mary Toye, $25; Christiaan Arnold Maria Videler, $l6; Edwin George Wallcroft, $2O (no warrant of fitness, $6); Colin James Woods, $10; Barry Wayne Lilley, $10; Jack Gordon Mclntosh, $l5; David George Newell, $3O; Phillip Anthony Shields, $10; Richard Trevor Speck, $10; Richard James Graham Thompson, costs only; Robert Gordon Debenham, $l2; Kenneth Cecil Hawes, $l2; Anthony Robert Kennett, $10; John Michael Loader, $l5; Ernest Selwyo Buckwell, $25; Allan Leslie Frame, $10; Albert Gleeson Grant, $8; Michael Robert White, $l2; John Dalton, $l2; Bruce Howard Meaclem, $l5; Bruce William Proctor, $10; Leslie Graham Drake, $l2; Peter William Alderidge, $10; John Joseph Chapman, $l5; Robin Stewart Collins, $8: Graeme John \Banks. $4O; Kevin Gordon Beument, $10; Frank William Darby,, $2O; Alistair John Huggins, $2O; Howard John Smith, $34; Graham Harry Thorne, $32; Ronald John Brown, $l2 (defective silencer, $10); Robert James Manley, $10; Ronald Frederick Sherlock, $10; Anthony Ernest Coombes, $25; Kenneth Colin Bullen, $10; Maureen Eleanor Donaldson, $10: Clifford Bernard Wells, $l2: Reginald Peter Shelton, $35; lan William Stanley. Baines, $2O; Clifford Tana, $10; Leslie William Giles, $27 (defective steering, $6); lan William Lee, $l5; Kenneth Peter Chapman, $10; Bernard Mark Cuneen, $2O; Herbert Lowe, $2O; Bbyd Neville Buzan, $25; Kenneth Edwin Nicholls, $10; Arnold Graham Pearce, $10; Gale Dalene Scott, $6;. Conrad Lawrence Thain, $39; Neville Beecroft, $35; Leslie Francis Davison, $10: John Clarence Gordon Howlett, $l2; Peter Isherwood, $32; Heemi Ngare Whoiigl, *27; David Donald Wil-

kinson, $10; Anthony Quentin Wilson, $25 (no warrant of fitness, $6).

Exceeded statutory axle weight: Ashby Brothers. Ltd, $10: Frews Motors, Ltd, $lO (exceeded gross statutory loading, $10; breached goods service licence. $10); R. R. Price. Ltd, $5O, and $4O on second charge (exceeded certificate of fitness, $10); Farrier Waimak, Ltd, $l2; B. J. Hale, Ltd, $10; Ryan Brothers, Ltd, $lO on. each of two charges; Burnetts Motors, Ltd, $6; Ellesmere Transport, Ltd, $8; McAlpines (Rangiora), Ltd, $2O; Oxford Transport Services, Ltd, $10; Vibrapac Blocks, Ltd, $lO. Exceeded heavy traffic li-, cence: Fleming and Company, Ltd, $8; Donald Wilding, $l4; Mairehau Sawmills, Ltd. $6; McCrackens Transport, Ltd, $B. Failed to stop for traffic officer: Barry Charles McSeveny, $l4 (exceeded 30 miles an hour, $2O). Used worn or damaged tyres: Ronald Robert Henderson, $6; Maurice Morgan. $6. Permitted unlicensed person to drive: Andrew Phillips, costs only; Trevor Ralph Sutcliffe, $2. Defective silencer: Richard Andrew James. $lO. No rear red light: Gerard Francis Patrick Nitten, $8; Mary Annette Abernathy, $8; Peter O'Loughlin, $lO. Failed to display L plate: Margaret Kay Wynn. $4; Derek Wayne Attewell. $8; Terrence John O’Neill, $10; Jean Faass, $B. Insecure trailer: Ryan Brothers, Ltd, $lO. Failed to dip lights: Kenneth Percival Fyans Neill, $6; William Neal Maynard, $6; Brian Ringrose. $B. Carried pillion passenger with only provisional licence: Geoffrey David Schultz. $B.

Failed to produce driver’s licence: Anthony John Hunt. $8; Loretta Diane Johnson, $6; Raymond Robert Clark, $lO (no warrant of fitness, $6); George Raina Waaka, $lO (no warrant of fitness, costs only); Brian Day, $10; Noel Alfred Walker, $lO.

Exceeded 55 miles an hour: Michael Kenneth Bamford, $10; John Christie, $26; Michael Edward Dawson, $2O: John Farrell, $l2; Alan Hugh Jones, $l6; Brian Boyd Allison, $10; Athol Ross Bradley, $3O; Barry Wayne Lilley, $10; Nichollas Martin, $3O; Douglas Pettigrew, $6. Exceeded 40 miles an hour with trailer: Jan Murphy Berry man, $l2; Francis Stone, $10; Francis William Bruce Miller, $B.

Insufficient- lights: William Bernard Bennett, $8; Michael Francis Baker, $l2: Edward Cavanagh, $lO (no driver’s licence, $l5 and licence cancelled for one month; no warrant of fitness, $4); Michael Edward Fitzgibbon, $l2; Joan Winifred Kirby, $10; David Edward Hamilton, $10; Terrence Frederick Rains, $lO (no warrant of fitness. $4).

Failed to stop at stop sign: William Michael Adrian van Soest, $l5; Peter John Mills, $2O; Roy William Charles Grant, $l4; James Stuart Wood, $l5; Jean Valerie Ponting, $l5; Roberta May Anderson, $l4; Anthony Ivan Dowden Lewis, $l5; Gabrielle Rae Wright, $l5; Alexander Aird, $l4; Bussell Nor man Bearman, $l5; Alvis Ellen Beri, $l5; Roderick Alan FawnS, $l5; Melville Radcliffe, $l5 (no driver’s licence, $l5 and licence cancelled for two months); John Joseph Ryan, $l5; Gordon Alex Tomlins, $l5; George Wilson, $l5; John Lumsden, $l5; David Arthur Somerville. $2O. Parked near corner: Leslie Malcolm Muir, $6.

Carelessly used motor vehicle: Donald James McDonald, $2O and licence cancelled for three months; Graham Lewis Pullan, $l5 and licence can celled for three months; Peter Wilson, $2O and licence cancelled for one month; Russell John Whitton, $2O and licence cancelled for two months (exceeded 30 miles an hour, $4O and licence cancelled for one month).

Failed to give way: Antony John Lye, $2O. , No driver’s licence: Janet Marie McDonald. $l5 and dis qualified from holding a licence for three months; Erena Phil lips, $l4; Ivy Thomson, $l5 (failed to keep left, $10): Ed win Evans, $l5 and licence can celled for two months (unlicensed motor vehicle, $10); Wayne Walter Pope, $6. No headlights on cycle: John Growcott (no tail-light on cycle, S2). m Failed to comply with traffic lights: Brian Johnston, $2O; Kenneth John Kay, $6: Kim Lee, $l2. Failed to display licence sticker: Kerry Garth Bloomfield. $6. No heavy traffic licence: Marcus Hampton Gibson, $l2. No warrant of fitness: James Russell Hyslop, costs only (number plate not displayed, costs only); Marie Therese Bruce, $4; Bruce James Lennie, $2; Rosalie Anne Summerton, $6: Laurence William Murphey, $6 (no rear vision mirror, $6); Kurt Ernest Mat? Wehrmann, $6 (no rear red lights, $6). Failed to keep left: Allan William Scott, $8 (exceeded 55 miles an hour, $10); John Graham Millan, $l2; Murray Stration Knight, $10: John Graham Harrow. $l4; Kenneth Roger Jones. $l2; Michael John Coughlan, $l2 (failed to display “L” plate, $6); Frederick Thomas Harris, ..$l4: Stephen George Lineham, costs only; Ronald William'Quick, $l4 and licence cancelled for one month* CIVIL CASES (Before Mr W. F. Brown, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES The following orders were made .' s on judgment summonses:— William Ewan Lidgett, workman, Woodgrove Avenue, to pay D.1.C., Ltd $42.92, in default 12 days imprisonment, warrant suspended while $2 a week is paid; D. Ford, company manager, Hampshire Street, to pay G. P. Wright $72.90 (20 days or $2 a week): H. J. Oakes, chef, Ferry Road. to pay Barry Brothers, Ltd $16.96 (four days or $2 a week).

Alexander Galbraith, cleaner, Knowles Street, to pay Edgeware Service Station, Ltd $20.25 (five days or $2 a week): J. Birdsall, Burwood Road, to pay C. D. Beatson, Ltd $92.78 (30 days or $2 a week); Gordon Maxwell Bryant, butcher, Yarmouth Street, to pay Frewers Electrical and TV. Ltd $22.33 (five days or $2 a week). Frank A. Griffin, buyer, Graham* Road, to pay Ivan Doug?

las Ward $27.18 (eight days or $2 a week); Francis Texas Hamilton, contractor, Langdons Road, lo pay R. B. Goodman $BB (30 days or $2 a week); Albert James Hatcher, taxi proprietor, Dunster Street, to pay Breeze Auto Services, Ltd $477.84 (90 days or $5 a week). Kevin Russell Houghton. Dover Street, to pay James Francis Entwistle $201.50 (60 days or $2 a week); W. C. Kerr, Bournemouth Crescent, to pay J. Lamb and Son, Ltd $41.05 (12 days or $2 a week); Brian James Lagan, inspector, corner of Geraldine Street and Bealey Avenue, to pay Edward James Abell $300.49 (90 days or $2 a week). J. W. Levy, worker, care of St Albans Service Station, to pay South Island Motors, Ltd $64.47 (25 days or $2 a week); K. G. Lowe, dairy proprietor, Epsom Road, to pay Cash Tobacco Sales $85.03 (30 days or $2 a week); M. Pahi, worker, Main North Road, to pay C. Hunton, Ltd $91.10 (four days or $2 a week). A. D. Petrie, labourer, care of Islington Sub-Station, to pay T. H. Davies and Company, Ltd $222.75 (80 days or $2 a week); Lyndsay Neil Price, dry cleaning contractor. Smith Street, Kaiapoi. to pay the Commissioner of Inland Revenue $98.22 (25 days or $2 a week). D. Sherriff, labourer. Cranford Street, to pay Maugera Garage, Ltd $137.59 (35 days or $2 a week); R. Smith, Skipton Street, to. pay Cambridge Service, Ltd $20.23 (five days or $2 a week); Phillip Southerwood, Briggs Road, to pay Marshland Garage, Ltd $870.68 (90 days or $2 a week) and to pay Ogilvie and Company. Ltd $279.15 (60 days or $2 a week). Gordon Lewis Spriggs, driver, Hampshire Street, to pay Wooff and Salvensen, Ltd $25.45 (six days or $2 a week): E. J. Thompson, well driller, Kairaki Beach, to pay Hardinghams Plumbers and Engineers Merchants $92.46 (25 days or $2 a week); Elaine Fay Willetts, married woman. Liverton Crescent, to pay Dominion Finance Corporation, Ltd $70.20 (15 days or 50c a week); Leonard Wright, civil servant. Chedworth Avenue, to pay Stanley Alexander Guthrie $76 <2O days or $5 a week).