MAGISTRATES COURT Man Admits Assaulting His Girl Friend

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31866, 19 December 1968, Page 10

MAGISTRATES COURT Man Admits Assaulting His Girl Friend

A man who assaulted his girl friend because he learnt she had been unfaithful to him afterwards took a .303 calibre rifle and made numerous threats to her that he would kill himself, Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M., was told in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The man, aged 21, was convicted on a charge of assaulting the girl on December 9, to which he pleaded guilty, and remanded to December 23 for a probation report and sentence. Bail was allowed and an interim order for suppression of his name was made.

Sergeant J. D. Shields said that the complainant, aged 18, had been keeping company with the defendant for some months. He had then found out she had been unfaithful to him and had become very upset. In a statement to the police the girl said that on December 9 the defendant had picked her up and driven her out towards Tai Tapu in his car. At this time the defendant had been very upset and had been questioning her about her associations with other boys. He had then stopped the car and placed his hand behind her neck, pulling her head down and applying pressure to her throat. Shortly after this he started to hit her about the head and face with his fist and open hand. He then pushed her head against the car door a number of times. As a result of this the complainant's glasses were broken and she suffered bruising to the bridge of her nose and face. The defendant then drove off with her still in the car, hut stopped and again grabbed her about the neck and applied pressure to her throat. He applied sufficient pressure to prevent her from sneaking for some time after the assault. The following day her throat .was still sore. The two then drove to the home of a friend and a short time later the complainant left with the defendant again, on the understanding that he would take her straight home, said Sergeant Shields. He drove out in the country again, however, where he stopped the car. While parked the defendant took a rifle from the back seat of the '■ar and said several times that he would take his own life. He later returned to the car and took her home. [ When interviewed by the J police the defendant admitted 'that he had hit the complain-

ant and that he could recall putting his hands around her throat. He said he did not Know if he wanted to kill her or not. He said that in a way he wanted to but then again he did not want to. He would not have touched her, he said, if she had not been unfaithful to him and told him lies about it, said Sergeant Shields. FALSE PRETENCES A total of $1544 was obtained in loans from a city solicitor by Garry John Andrews, aged 35, unemployed, on the pretence that he would pay him back when he received $3OOO from a business deal, said Sergeant Shields.

Andrews was appearing on a charge of obtaining money by false pretences, to which be pleaded guilty. He was convicted and remanded to December 20 for sentence. The Magistrate suppressed the complainant’s name "in view of his age and disability.” Sergeant Shields said that a complaint was received from the solicitor on December 4 that a total of $1544 had been obtained from him between September 10 and November 27. The defendant had told the complainant that he was in business of buying boats, repairing them, and reselling them. He said he had a boat on hand but was short of funds to carry out the necessary repairs before selling it to a client who had agreed to buy it. Various advances were made to the defendant for this purpose. Andrews said he would repay the complainant when he received $3OOO from the sale of a boat. In mid-November he claimed he had sold the boat, but there were delays in getting the money, said Sergeant Shields. Finally he told the complainant that an alcoholic uncle of his had taken the money and run off, disposing of it all. Andrews then offered to repay the complainant at the rate of $1 a week. After his arrest the defendant admitted that his story about selling the boat had been untrue and at no time had he even owned a boat. He said he had been financially embarrassed and had made up the story so that the defendant would lend him money. It had been used to pay his personal debts and for living expenses.

BORSTAL TRAINING “The issue of your sentence Is crystal clear.” the Magistrate told Wayne Robert Drummond when he appeared for sentence on a charge of unlawfully taking a motor-car. “You have previously had a series of fines and. probation and have been sentenced to detention centre and Borstal training," h? said, sentencig Drummond, aged 18 and unemployed, to a further period of Borstal training. “On November 7 you appeared before the Court on a charge of unlawful taking of a motor-car and on that occasion you were fined $250 and admitted to probation—a penalty which, considering your past record, was quite lenient,” the Magistrate said. “Then a matter of days after that appearance, on December 6, you deliberately took another vehicle,” he said. As well as sentencing Drummond to Borstal, the Magistrate disqualified him from holding or obtaining a motor-driver’s licence for two years. On a similar charge arising from the same set of circumstances, Robert Lance Ewart, aged 17, a fruit picker (Mr R. F. Powell), was remanded on bail to December 20 for a medical report with a view to sentencing him to detention centre. Ewart was also appearing for sentence. Ewart, who was on probation at the time of the offence, had last appeared before the court in March, this year, on traffic charges, and although he had appeared in the Children’s Court on criminal matters, this was the first time he.,had been in the Magistrate’s Court for an offence of this' nature, Mr Powell said. He had not actually taken the car but had gone along for the ride, Mr Powell said. STOLE $422 Darrick Lindsay Gifford, aged 25, unemployed (Mr L. G. O’Reilly), pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of $422.74 as a servant of Europa (N.Z.), Ltd, between March 15 and October 18 this year. He was convicted and remanded on bail to December 23 for a probation officer’s report and sentence. Sergeant said that Gifford had been in charge of the company’s Timaru office and had been responsible for money passing through the office at the time of the offences. The company had become aware of the losses when customers complained that although they had paid money in to the Timaru office their monthly statements showed otherwise. When interviewed, the defendant had said that he accepted full responsibility for the losses and arrangements had been made for the return of the money. Sergeant Shields said. SEVEN DAYS GAOL Albert Wylie, aged 43, a steel worker, was sentenced to seven days imprisonment when he appeared for sentence- on a charge of assault of his wife. Florence Wylie, on November 27. Wylie, who told the Court that his three appearances “had wasted enough of his time,” had five previous convictions for assault, the Magistrate said, two of them on police officers. "You were given one year’s deferred sentence for the previous assault on your wife in the hope that this would give you a more responsible attitude towards her. This is not just a matter between you and. your wife, but one for society as a whole, which has a duty to protect its members,” the Magistrate said. EIGHT CHARGES Peter John Bennett, aged 18, a tyre worker, was placed on probation for two years and lined a total of $75 on three charges of false pretences and three charges of aiding false prtetences when he appeared for Sentence. On a further charge of being a minor found in a bar he was fined $lO and for giving false particulars he was also fined $lOThe Magistrate told Bennett that he had decided with considerable hesitation to release him on probation instead of sentencing him to Borstal. INDECENT PHONE CALLS Bryan Ranson, aged 32, an egg processor, was convicted and remanded to December 23 for sentence when he appeared on charges of using indecent language over the telephone and making calls for the purposes of annoying. Sergeant Shields said the defendant had made calls to the complainant, a- 15-year-old schoolgirl, on October 22, No-1 vember 5 and 7. |

He had been apprehended byr police in a public telephone! booth as he concluded the last 1 call. SUSPENDED SENTENCE Ngaghau Taurerwa, aged 39, a driver, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon after he pleaded guilty to a charge of being : found without lawful excuse in ' the enclosed yard of the Ferry Road girls’ receiving home. Sergeant Shields said at 11.15 p.m. on Tuesday a security officer saw Taurerwa enter the grounds of the home. When he did not come out after some time the security officer went in looking for him. Taurerwa was found lying in the front yard and appeared to be asleep. He could give no reason for entering the grounds. He had been drinking but was not drunk. Taurerwa said in Court that he had wanted to relieve himself. PROBATION Charles Haleia Tahapeehi, aged 17, a painter, was placed on probation for 18 months and ordered to pay restitution when he appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing $9O from E. F. Wltehira on November 29. Defence counsel. Mr W. A. Wilson, said the offence had been committed on the spur of the moment and the defendant was very shame-faced about the lapse. Conscience had driven him to burn most of the money almost immediately, said Mr Wilson. FORGED CHEQUES Charged with forging eight cheques to a total value of $149, Henry Charles Gardner, aged 29. a shoemaker, was convicted and remanded in custody to December 20 for sentence. He pleaded guilty to eight charges of forgery committed in Christchurch between October 30 and November 4. Sergeant Shields said that on October 29 a soldier reported that his cheque book had been lost or stolen, and subsequently seven cheques from this were cashed in city hotels, and one at a dairy. When arrested, the defendant said he had been drinking in a hotel when a friend had produced a cheque book which he said he had stolen from a car. The defendant said he did not cash the forged cheques but was present when four of them were, receiving about $2O as his share. Inquiries were being made to find the other person involved, said Sergeant Shields. FINED $5O Charged with using obscene language in Cashel Street on December 17, Mark Nicholls, aged 18, a painter, pleaded guilty and was fined $5O. Sergeant Shields said that at 11.35 a.m. a constable had noticed the defendant annoying women who passed by. He was found to be intoxicated and told to go home as he was making a fool of himself. He then used the obscene language complained of. STOLE CHARITY CONTAINERS Denis Greaney, aged 27, unemployed, was remanded on bail to December 23 for sentence on a charge of stealing a Nazareth House donation box and contents and a paraplegics and cerebral palsy donation jar and contents of a total value of $7.27, the property of Ronald Miller. Sergeant Shields said that at 1.50 p.m. on Tuesday, a constable had seen Greaney running along Norwich Quay, Lyttelton, with something under his windbreaker jacket. He was found in the lavatory of the Canterbury Hotel. When questioned he said he had gone in there to break open the containers to get the money. He said he had taken them in des peration as he was out of work He had last worked in Lower Hutt two weeks ago. Greaney said in Court that he had no money for food and went to Lyttelton to get a job. STOLE FROM EMPLOYER A 31-year-old mother (Mr G. R. Lascelles), who worked part time in a chain store, pleaded guilty to theft of $2.20 as a servant on November 22. She was convicted and fined $25. Her name was suppressed. Sergeant Shields said that a woman had approached the defendant, supplying the correct money for an article worth $1.50. The defendant had rung the sum of 50c on the till and supplied a docket for this amount. Again the woman offered the defendant the correct money for an article, this time worth $1.20, and no docket was provided and the money was not rung on to the till. For the defendant Mr Lascelles said the other woman had acted as an agent provocateur and that the offence had been very much a “spur of the moment” decision. The defendant had a good community record and had worked on a parttime basis for city stores for some years without any suggestion of dishonesty on her part. Mr Lascelles said. DISCHARGED “It is quite clear this was an accidental matter and I don’t think the defendant should suffer unduly,” said the Magistrate, discharging John William Maynard, aged 21, a painter (Mr R. F. E. Perry), on a charge of assaulting Suzanne Mynette Hewitt on December 2. He had pleaded not guilty. Evidence had been given that the complainant had been hit in the lip by the defendant, after the car in which she was a passenger struct a dog in Cranford Street. The defendant said the car had stopped but the driver had then made to move off without going to see the owner of the dog. He had put his arm through the window in an instinctive action to stop the car. said the defendant. STOLE GROCERIES Appearing for sentence on a charge of stealing groceries valued at $17.30 from a supermarket, a housewife, aged 26, was placed on probation for a year and an order was made for suppression of her name. The Magistrate said that there had been a considerable emotional stress on the defendant for some time. STOLE TAPE RECORDER A youth, aged 19, who stole a tape recorder from his employer, a large city firm, was convicted and remanded on bail to December 23 for sentence. He was granted interim suppression of name. The defendant had stolen the tape recorder, valued at $119.95, from a wall display stand, said Sergeant Shields. MISCELLANEOUS CHARGES Minor found in bar; Dawn Blair, $l5; Anthony Wayne Doorey, $5; Neville Henry Everest, $lO (gave false particulars, $10): Gordon Craven Stuart, $l5; Christine Ann Wilson, $l5: William Harrow, $10; Paul George Jamieson, $l5; Graeme Robert Sherlocks, $l5; RayDouglas Sunbeam, $7. Supplied minor with liquor: James Duncan Burnett, $l5; Murray Paul Don, $l5. Sold liquor at time when not authorised to do so: Walter Edward Jehu Davies, $2O. Drove carelessly: Roger John Wade. $25. (Before Mr P. L. Molineaux, S.M.) CHARGES DENIED Dennis Ollis, aged 17, unemployed, was remanded in custody until tomorrow for sentence on charges of assaulting David Harold Hounseil and wilful damage of his car. He pleaded not guilty, and was represented by Mr B. A. Hunt. Mr Hounseil, aged 18, a grocer, said he was sitting in his car near The Scene dancehall in Tuam Street, shortly after midnight on November 15. Two other youths, Paul and David Whitfield, were also in the Icar. A group of youths camei

over to the car and Ollis struck witness three times in the eye. Ollis also broke off one of the door handles of the car. Ollis pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a bicycle valued at $l5, the property of a person unknown. Senior-Sergeant F. G. Mulcare said on October 21 Ollis was running down Gloucester Street beside a friend who was riding a bicycle. Ollis picked up a bicycle outside the N.Z.B.C. studios and rode off on it. When the bicycle was located ail re movable parts had been taken from it and put on another bicycle. On a charge of being found in a hotel bar when a minor, to which he pleaded guilty Ollis was fined $lO. FAILED TO GIVE WAY Ernest James Annand. a rub ber worker, was fined $2O and was ordered to pay witnesses’ expenses of $2 on a charge of tailing to give way to the right c ° rner of St Asaph and Phillips Streets. He pleaded not guilty and was represented byMr R. F. B. Perry. The charge arose'out of a col Itsion with a car driven by Gavin Francis Sisson. (Before Messrs J. S. Hawker and A. R. Chambers, Justices of the Peace.) COMMITTED FOR TRIAL A man, separated from his wife, who was accused of appearing naked before four

nurses in the sandhills at New Brighton beach on November 29, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of obscene exposure and was remanded on bail. Mr M. J. Glue appeared for the defendant, whose name was suppressed in the interim. Dougal Edward Searle, aged 32, a farmhand, was committed to the Supreme Court for trial on a charge of burglary of a shed, the property of J. Searle, at Sheffield between November 16 and November 24. A washing machine was taken from the shed. (Before Mr W. F. Brown, S.M.) CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of driving on Victoria. Salisbury and Durham Streets on November 28. while under the influence of drink or a drug, against Norma Mary Florence Jones, aged 31, a housewife (Mr G. R. Lascelles) was dismissed. Jones pleaded not guilty. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.) TRAFFIC OFFENCES In traffic prosecutions brought by the Transport Department, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows with Court costs of $5 in each case: Exceeding 30 miles an hour: William Douglas Shennan, $5O; Lawrence George Brennan, $l2; Rodney Douglas Harris Steel. $l5; William Stockdale, $10; David John Hamilton, $10; Graeme Alfred Munro, $2O; Olive Elsom. $l2; Albert Holden, $l2; Ronald Trevor Williams. $10; Martin John Carr. $10; Thomas Aaron Wilson. $8; Raymond Douglas Erridge, $l5; Thomas John Williams, $25: Barry Reginald Dixon, $8: lan Carl Henry. $10; Trevor Anderson Mcllroy. $8: David Lionel O'Donnell, $8; Allan William Cleave, $25; Ed ward Absalom Hopkins. $25; Terrence John Than, $25; Mai colm Kenneth Ussher, $3O: Lindsay James Dods, $l5: Paul Winifred Humpreys. $10: Gerald \nthony Whiting. $10; Brian Lynch. $10; Patrick James Tsborn, $2O: Carole Mae Piper, $10: Gary Anthony Rogers, $10; Robin John Carpenter. $l2; Hendrik Cornelius De Boer. $l5; William Jahn Hooper, $25; William Aubrey Jamieson, $l5: James Olsen, $l5: Robert Albert Porter. $25; Peter William Sawver, $25; Graeme William Sheffield, $l5 (exceeding 55 miles an hour, $20); James Arthur Baird. $l5; Roger Charles Carter, $l5; Dennis Murray Knight. $10: Chriatine Kay Lloyd, $10; Grenville Charles Watson. $10: Richard Henry Wheal, $10: Gerald Coward, $l5: Peter William Drake, $l2: Noel Douglas McGregor. $l5: Stanley Melven Pritchard, $l5: Clement Raymond Quinn. $25: Peter Laurence Read, $l5; Ann Elizabeth Berry, $10; Colin Harold Berryman, $l5; Michael Lawrence Buckland. $l2, disqualified for one month: John Arthur Campbell, $25: Colin James Clutterbuck, $25; Charles Richard Cresswell, $25; Harald John Grainger. $10: Stanley Clifford Griffin. $2O: Alan George David Hutton, $10; Gary Stephen Jemeson, $2O; Noel James Morgan, $l2: Ellwyn Alfred James Rioeertsy, $10: Rand Robbins, $2O: Kiars Schat, $10: Robert Stuart, $10: Phillip Clive Taylor. $25; Douglas Ivan Thompson, $25; Alfred Warkes, $l5 (no warrant of fitness. $6); Frederick William Zimmerman. $10: Kathryn Theresa Andrews. $2O: John Edward Beattie, $10: James Cuthbert, $l5 Roger Neil Geddes. $l5: William John Hall. $25: David William Horrell. $25: Norman Arnold Howson, $l5: Allan Dawson Kitson, $25: Sybil Mary Maher, $2O: lan Tyler Morten, $l5: Albert Rogers, $l5; Winifred Slender, $l5: Alan Earle Ward, $l2: Alistair Crawford Young, $lO. Driving against traffic lights: Ray Cecil Timtrts. $l5. disqualified for one month: John Thompson Buckwell, $3O: Lawrence Wilfred Holdem. $4O, disquali fled for six months: Yew Tong Wong, $l5. disqualified for one month: William George Wool-more-Gordon. $25. Failed to stop at compulsory stop: Brian Edward Mitchell, $l5; John Gary Paul Johnston, $8 (failing to display “L” sign. $6); Donald Randell Gordon, $l5 <no driver’s licence. $10): Reginald Walter Woods. $l5; William Charles James Bohan, $l5: Victor Wilson, $l5. Careless driving; Larry O’Con-

nor, $3O. disqualified for six months: Fred Lester Blackburn, $2O, disqualified for three months: Robin Cuthbert Reed. $3O, disqualified for tiiree months. Exceeding heavy traffic licence: Jack Gallagher. Ltd. $l2: T. B. Hamilton, Ltd. $18; Assen Pileff, $lO (no certificate of fitness, $10); James Bevan Thomas, $lO. Exceeding temporary speed limit: John Stanley Lightfoot, $8; Richard George Bell. $10; Ernest Edward Lower, $10; Betty Stewart Nankivell, $10; Richard Sturge, $l2. Driving while disqualified: Raymond John Moore. $BO. disqualified for one year (no warrant of fitness, $6). Unlicensed motor vehicle: Dennis Arthur Steffensen. $2O; Alan Fillbrook. $lO. No certificate of fitness: B. J. Hale, Ltd, $lO (overweight vehicle, $l5, exceeding axle weight $l5), Gerran Entertainments, $l5. No driver’s licence: Henry Joseph Swann, $10; Richard Charles Broughton, $lO <no licence label, $10). Failing to keep left: Graeme Charles Hayton, $2O. disqualified for six months (exceeding 30 miles an hour, $25); Bruce William Ward. $l5. Driving without consideration: Walter Clifford Fattorini, $3O. Dangerous loading: Anthony Michael Docherty, $4O. Exceeding 55 miles an hour: Frederick Charles Tavendale, $3O. Failing to give way: John Lindsay Rider Roberts, $25. Exceeding 40 miles an hour with a trailer: Bruce Morton, $l5. Defective service brake: . Fraser Todd Heller, $25 (exceeding 30 miles an hour. $8). I Failing to display “L” sign: I Peter Winsbury White. $lO. I Cutting corner: Andrew Feri gus Cuningham. $l5. Failing to produce drivers • licence: Leonard Alan Thornr ley, $lO. » Exceeding axle weight: Road Construction Co., Ltd, $l6. No heavy traffic licence: ' Adrian Hansen, $l2; Kenneth Pickering, $l5. Insufficient lights: Stephen i Frederick Henry Reed, $10; ; Richard Martin Thurlow. $lO. r Exceeding 40 miles an hour: t Joseph Sargissen, $2O. i No rear red light: Keith 1 Smith. $2O. i Riding bicycle on foothpath: James Dennis Orlowski, $B. • (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.) JUDGMENT SUMMONSES 1 The following orders were .• made on judgment summonses: 1 James Edward Ballock, work--1 man. Ascot Avenue, to pay L. • C. Evans $ll5, in default 62 days : imprisonment, warrant sus- > pended while $2 a week is paid; • R. Cootes, salesman, Vancouver • Crescent, to pay Wynn-Williams ! and Company $70.47 (40 days or : $2 a week); Adrian Day, car--8 penter, Thomas Street, to pay : Patrick Walter Neame and Jack • Corroll Hunter $415.87 (three s months or $2 a week). • E. Geddis, fireman, Hamps shire Street, to pay May's Floral • Studio $10.70 (seven days or • $2 a week); B. A. Newell, work- • man, Yarmouth Street, to pay : Snow White Studios, Invercar- • gill, $74.85 (40 days or $2 a : week): A. Loucas, workman, c o Marathon Rubber factory, to ■ pay Sumner Garage, Ltd, $116.61 - <62 days or $2 a week*.

Norman Merrie, labourer. Bridle Path Road. Lyttelton, to pay Beach and Company, Ltd. 848.99 (28 days or $2 a weeki; L. Morton, labourer, Ross Terrace, Lyttelton, to pay Dudley Taylor Andrews $124.16 (67 days or $3 a week); Lance Murdoch, war pensioner, Hereford Street, to pay the Post Office $64.45 (35 days or $1 a week). P. A. Neil, labourer, Mcßratneys Road, to pay Steve Christenson and Company, Ltd $34.40 (19 days or $2 a week); B. P. O’Connor, retired, Avalon Street, to pay M. G. L. Loughnan $31.28 (18 days or $2 a week); L. Roberts, Disabled Servicemen’s Centre, Riccarton Road, to pay Walter Day Hire, Ltd. $44 (25 days or $2 a week). Charles Clive Sumner, freezing worker. Roker Street, to pay John Powers $11.25 (10 days or $2 a week); Ronald Manning Sutherland, butcher, Brougham Street, to pay Sun Insurance Office. Ltd. $131.45 <7O days or $2 a week): John Reginald Taylor. workman. Pound Road, to pay Post Office $16.52 (nine days Sidney Reginald Thorpe, company employee. Clyde Road, to pav Wvnn-Williams and Company $62.50 (34 days or $2 a week): Joyce Walker, widow. Bamford Street, to pay Standard Publishing Company Pty. Ltd $95.40 (51 days or $1 a week); V. Wallace, butcher. Lambeth Crescent, to pay Standard Publishing Company Pty. Ltd $20.40 (12 days or $2 a week). T. Washbourne. labourer. Kent Street, to pay Marie Lucinskv $87.98 (47 days or $2 a week); R. Williams, fitter. Grosvenor Street, to pay Insul-Fluf Distributors. Ltd. $142 (75 days or $2 a week): M. Wilson, married woman. Hoani Street, to pav Northwest Service Station. Ltd. $151.53 (80 days or $2 a week).