MAGISTRATE’S COURT Seven Charges After Motor Accident

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31784, 14 September 1968, Page 16

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Seven Charges After Motor Accident

Thomas John Teifi Jones, aged 41,'a social security beneficiary, was fined a total of $35 when he appeared before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on seven charges arising from a traffic accident in Barbadoes Street on July 8. Jones pleaded guilty to charges of having no rear red light, for which he was fined $l5, driving a motor vehicle, carelessly, $5, failing to ascertain injury after an accident, $lO, and using an unregistered motor car, $5 and disqualified for three months; with $5 Court costs on each charge. He was convicted and ordered to pay Court costs of $5 on charges of having no driver’s licence, using a trailer without a licence and having no warrant of fitness for the trailer.

Sergeant J. D. Shields said that about 7.15 p.m. Jones was driving his car, towing a trailer loaded with 15ft lengths of timber, south on Barbadoes Street, when he braked.

The car skidded sideways and came to rest with a wheel in the gutter on Jones’s right. A power cyclist suffered minor injuries when he collided with the trailer. It was dark and raining at the time. Jones said the overloaded trailer jack-knifed when he braked, stopping at a 45 degree angle. The powercyclist struck it about three to four minutes later. The power cyclist seemed all right. He had not asked him if he was all right as his main interest was to get the trailer clear of the roadway. BURGLARY

William Bernard Bennett, aged 27, a bread packer, was convicted and remanded on bail to September 23 for sentence on a charge of burglary of a shop at 163 Cranford Street on September 11. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Shields said the defendant took cigarettes and razor blades, valued at $13.49. He caused damage amounting to $25 when he entered the shop. REMANDED Ronald Anthony Dick, aged 25, an unemployed workman, was remanded in custody until September 20 for the taking of-depositions on charges of burglary (two charges), escaping from custody (two charges), being in possession of housebreaking implements, and obtaining credit by fraud. He elected to be tried by a jury. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of wilfully damaging a glass door valued at $3O on July 20, and was remanded until October 7. LIQUOR OFFENCES Sold liquor while not authorised: Michael Patrick Highsted, $lO (kept liquor for sale while not authorised, $4O). Minor found in bar: Alister Rutherford, $8; Lachlan David Rutherford, $B. TRAFFIC OFFENCES Failed to give way: Rudolph Roth, $l5; Robert Arnold Reriti, $l5, disqualified for one month from September 20; Alexander Balfour Clark, $2O. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) DISMISSED A charge of using threatening language in a car park in Marine Parade on August 24 against John Galvin Donnelly, aged 20, a carpet setter, was dismissed. Donnelly (Mr B. J. Drake) pleaded -not guilty. The Magistrate held that when Donnelly said to Constable V. P. Nolan “take off your uniform and we’ll go down to the beach and we’ll see how good you are; you are all the same, you are yellow,” it was not a threat. COSTS ONLY Alister John Wardell, aged 38. a postman, was convicted and ordered to pay costs and witness expenses of $2 on a charge of failing to give way in Stanmore Road on August 2. Wardell (Mr B. J. Drake) pleaded not guilty. The Magistrate said the offence was not a bad case of its kind. j PROBATION Adelaide Elaine GiUigan-Kings-

ley, aged 30, who was committed to a mental institution under Section 38 of the Mental Health Act in 1905 for ill-treat-ing her one-year-old child, was released on probation for one year.

Mr E. T. Higgins, for Gilli-gan-Kingsley, said under the section which his client had been committed, she was unable to leave the institution each day for work. He said she had volunteered to remain at the institution as a patient if she were released on probation. (Before Mr W. F. Brown, S.M.) KILLED SHEEP Harold Omihi Baker, a retired farmer, aged 69. who killed a sheep when he drove into a mob, was convicted and fined $lB and was disqualified from driving for three months on a charge of careless use of a motor vehicle. Baker did not appear because of illness, and a plea of not guilty was entered by Mr A. P. C. Tipping. DANGEROUS POSITION For allowing two youths to ride on the truck he was driving in Harewood Road on May 14. in a position which was liable to cause injury, Trevor Errol Rapley, a logging contractor, aged 29. was convicted and fined $2O. He was represented by Mr G. W. Alexander. The Magistrate said that he found from the evidence that, the two youths had been lying on their backs on top of 15 bags of pine cones on the tray of the truck. The bags had not been tied down. REDUCED CHARGE Alexander Forbes (Mr J. F. Burn), a driver, aged 46, who pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of careless use of a motor vehicle, was convicted and fined $25. The charge was reduced from one of dangerous driving.