MAGISTRATE’S COURT Girl Sold Converted $800 Car For $60 After Accident

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32194, 13 January 1970, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Girl Sold Converted $800 Car For $60 After Accident

A young woman who was given possession of a converted car worth $BOO in Auckland early last year, and who later sold it as a wreck for $6O was convicted on two charges and remanded to January 19 for a probation officer’s report and sentence when she appeared before Mr W. F. Brown, S.M., in the Christchurch Magistrate's Court yesterday. She is Barbara Mary Biakie, aged 21, a driver. She pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving a car, valued at $BOO, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained, from John Hugh Coe, between February 20 and February 28, 1969, at Otara, Auckland, and to a charge of obtaining $6O at Waiuku, on or about March 15, by falsely representing that the car was her property. She was represented by Mr M. J. Glue. Sergeant V. F. Townshend told the Court that the accused, a girl friend, and a man had left Christchurch in the man’s car early in February to drive to Auckland. When their car crashed at Otara, the man took a car from a driveway and they continued the journey in it In Auckland, the man told the two women they could have the car, which they drove about the South Auckland area for some weeks until overturiing it at a bend near Waiuku. The accused then sold it to a local garage for $6O, saying the papers would be sent later. The purchaser became suspicious when the papers did not arrive, and informed the police. Mr Glue applied for suppression of name, saying that the police statement of facts was. not acccepted entirely, and that the length of time since the offence was of considerable significance. The Magistrate refused o grant suppression of name, noting several convictions for false pretences a few months before the present offences. DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR A youth who emptied a rubbish tin and threw it at po-

lice five days after he was fined $l7O for assaulting and obstructing the police and committing wilful damage was remanded to January 19 for a probation officer’s report and sentence when he appeared on a charge of behaving in a disorderly manner in Cathedral Square on January 10. Joseph William Baryluk, an 18-year-old unemployed sawmill hand, pleaded guilty. A medical report was also ordered, with a view to sentencing Baryluk to a periodic detention centre.

Sergeant Townshend said that at 7.55 p.m., on the evening of the offence a police patrol saw Baryluk remove a rubbish tin from a pole, empty it on to the Godley plot, and throw it at them. He could give no reasonable explanation 'or his action.

The Magistrate said he would ordinarily have dealt with Baryluk on the spot, but on January 5 he was fined $lOO for assaulting the police, $5O for obstructing the police, and $2O for committing wilful damage. “Apparently these fines have had no effect on you, and it is time now for a punishment other than a fine,” he said. The Rev. M. J. Goodall said Baryluk had been in no trouble before he left his home at Motueka. Since coming to Christchurch he had mixed with bad company. He now had a job in Motueka, and would return there if he was free to do so. BURGLARY CHARGES

Bail was refused Brian John Turner, aged 19, a slaughterman (Mr K. N. Hampton), after he had pleaded guilty to seven charges of burglary, one of attempted burglary, and one of theft, between December 21 and 31, and had been remanded to January 19 for a probation report and sentence.

Turner, with another youth, had burgled on December 21 the Wesley Methodist Church Hall, Fitzgerald Avenue,

entering through a closed but unlocked window, and stealing a slide projector, and after attempting to break into the shop of Gassons Glass, Ltd, in Walker Street, followed this with burglaries of Xavier College, an office, and two medical surgeries at 222 Oxford Terrace, the Royal George Hotel—where a cash register valued at $341 was taken, but recovered undamaged—and flat premises of the Christchurch Club at 154 Worcester Street

After convicting Turner on all counts, the Magistrate said that because of the multiplicity of offences, and their seriousness, bail would be refused. He ordered that- Turner be kept apart from adult prisoners. BURGLARY, CONVERSION Graham John Burgess, aged 23, a service station attendant (Mr D. M. Palmer), pleaded guilty to a charge of taking a car worth $1295, and a charge of burgling the Boomerang Service Station, both on January 11. Sergeant J. D. Burrell said that Burgess had taken the car from a Papanui salesyard at 2 a.m. It was later found abandoned with $44 worth of damage. He also admitted having broken into the Boomerang Service Station 'and taking a floor safe and cigarettes. With two companions, he had driven to the Waimakariri riverbed, where they had broken the safe open with an axe. The total value of property taken was $247. The safe, with company records, was thrown into the river.

Burgess was remanded on bail to January 19 for a probation report and sentence. STOLE TIMBER

Graeme Edward Spencer, aged 23, a labourer (Mr R. L. Kerr), and Gary Thomas. Devon, aged 23 (Mr D. M. Palmer), a shearing contractor, both pleaded guilty to a joint charge of stealing 52 lengths of red pine timber from the University of Canterbury in Montreal Street on January 10. Sergeant Townshend said that a complaint had been received at 2 p.m. from the university. The accused were

seen later the same day and admitting taking the timber at 8 a.m. Devon said he needed timber for his farm. They were remanded on bail to January 19 for probation reports and sentence. CONVERTED MOTORCYCLE

A youth who, with a female companion, converted a mo-tor-cycle, went for a "joyride,” and was involved in an accident, was convicted and remanded on bail until January 19 for a probation officer’s report and sentence.

Robin George Dungey, aged 17; a seaman, was charged with unlawfully taking a motor-cycle valued at $135, the property of Alan Dean Goodmanson. He was also charged with driving a motorcycle without a licence. Dungey pleaded guilty to both charges and was represented by Mr D. M. Palmer. Sergeant Townshend said that at 7.45 p.m. on January 10, a motor-cycle was left on Norwich Quay, Lyttelton. At 8.55 p.m., the police were called to an accident at the end of the Tunnel Road, Lyttelton, in which the motorcycle was involved. Damage to the vehicle amounted to $3O.

Dungey and. his companion were questioned after they were seen to leave the accident scene. Counsel submitted, that it was desirable that Dungey be on board his ship due to leave Lyttelton on Wednesday. The accused could not be . committing further offences if he were at sea. But the Magistrate said that Dungey was asking for special treatment because he was a Seaman and' might lose his jgb. The present offence was serious. Dungey had been drinking, taken a machine for a “joy-ride” and been involved in an accident. "The Court hears this every day,” he said. EXCESS ALCOHOL

Edward William Curtin, aged 49, a gardener, was convicted and fined $lOO and disqualified from driving for 30 months when he pleaded guilty to a . charge of driving on Lincoln Road on November 15 when the propor-

tion of alcohol exceeded 100 milligrams to 100 millilitres of his blood. Sergeant Townshend said Curtin had been seen driving erratically at 10.10 p.m.. After failing two breath tests, he was given a blood test, which showed him to have 300 milligrams of alcohol to 100 millilitres of blood. He was also ordered to pay $10.50 medical expenses. BROKE GLASS Tupi Fasa, aged 24, a machinist, pleader' guilty through a Samoan interpreter, to a charge of wilfully breaking glass in Cathedral Square on New Year’s morning, and was convicted and fined $7O. Fasa was said to have been carrying an empty half-gallon jar which he lifted above his head and let fall to the ground saying that he had done so because a friend had done likewise.

Through the Interpreter Fasa said he was sorry he had been “drawn into the matter,” and would not- do it again. MINOR IN BAR Mary Patricia Wauchop, aged 19, pleaded guilty to being in a bar of the Gresham Hotel when under 20 and was convicted and fined $4. She told the Magistrate she had gone into the bar to say good-bye to a friend. TRAFFIC CHARGES On traffic charges brought by the police, convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows: Careless use of a vehicle: John Francis Sheehan, $2O (failed to stop after accident, $3O and disqualified for six weeks). Opened car door with likelihood of injury to another person: Franciscus Johannes van der Put, $2O.