MAGISTRATE’S COURT Periodic detention for burglary

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33479, 9 March 1974, Page 16

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Periodic detention for burglary

William Barnes, aged 17, unemployed (Mr N. R W. Davidson), was sentenced to four months periodic detention, put on probation for a year, and ordered to pay $67 compensation when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of burglary. Barnes and a co-offender had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering a house in Opawa Road and taking appliances worth $2OO. Mr Davidson said that defendant and his companion had entered the house to steal mattresses for their

, house. They had become . frightened after stealing the i equipment and had dumped • it in a sewerage pond. i Mr W. F. Brown, S.M., i said it was an irresponsible • way of disposing of the ; goods and was reprehensible. > “It is time you had some of your leisure time taken up,” ■ he told Barnes. , 5-100 FINE A line of $4OO was imposed on John Hector Mclntosh, aged 31, a I fisherman (Mr L. G. Holder), ; when sentenced on a charge of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl on • January 20. He had previously I pleaded guilty and been con- . victed. J THEFT IN SHIP Tlie second officer aboard an ' overseas vessel pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing an electronic calculator, part of pillaged goods worth $5OOO, when his ship was at Thnaru on March 7. The 'officer, Antonlus Samatas, aged 22, was convicted and fined $5O, in default of immediate payment 121 days imprisonment. Sergeant R. I. Harlick said that Samatas had been apprehended in Umaru when he sold the calculator in an office for $3O. its wholesale price was $29.95. Samatas had said he had found ;the calculator concealed in the hold after the cargo had been removed. He had sold it to obtain some money. Sergeant Harlick said that Samatas was aware that the cargo had been heavily pillaged before the m.v. Aftadeifos arrived at Umaru. Calculators worth $5OOO had been taken. ‘ FALSE FIRE CALL

“You have got a strange sense of humour,” the Magistrate said when Robert Hugh Tallot, aged 22, pleaded guilty to a charge of wilfully giving a false alarm of fire on January 26. Tallot was convicted and fined $lOO and ordered to pay compensation of $35.

Sergeant C. Walsh said that a false 111 call received at 10.42 a.m. had been traced to a house, and Tallot had been questioned. Tallot had said: “I did it for a lark. I was egged on by my mates.” ASSAULT Leslie Harold Stephen Piggot, a freezing worker, was convicted and lined $75 on a charge of assaulting Simon Stuart Swaney on December 19. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Walsh said that Piggot had struck the complainant on the head with his fist during an argument over payment in a Belfast hamburger bar. EXCESSIVE ALCOHOL On a charge of driving with an excessive blood-alcohol concentration (177 mg on December 29, lan Ferguson Knox, aged 22, a technician (Mr K. N. Hampton', who pleaded guilty, was convicted and fined ?100 and disqualified from driving for one year. Brent Helgel Neilson, aged 19, a paint salesman, was convicted and fined $l5O and disqualified from driving for 18 months, after pleading guilty to a charge of driving with an excessive bloodalcohol concentration (203 mg on January 13. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M.)

THREE OFFENDERS Two youths and a girl were each convicted and fined $5O on a

charge of being found without lawful excuse on a property in Queensbury Street, Burwood. They are Gordon William Freeman, aged 19, a malt worker, and Edward James Memo, aged 19, unemployed (Mr M. J. Glue, for both) and Patricia Ann Young, aged 18, a siiop assistant (Mr G. R. Lascelles). Momo was also convicted and fined $4O on a charge of resisting a constable. The defendants all pleaded not guilty. The prosecution witnesses said that the defendants were members of a group of 50 persons who arrived at a party in Queensbury Street. A fight broke out and the police were called. The group was asked to leave. About half an hour later, a number of the group retured and tlie complainant called the police again. When the police arrived, there was fighting on the front lawn and other persons were running from the house. Tlie complainant took a constable inside and pointed out Freeman to him. He was arrested. Two other constables found Momo and Young tn the wash house. Their explanation had been that they were leaving by the back door because they had been asked to leave.

When the constables arrested them, Momo struggled violently. A constable hit him twice with his baton on the upper arm. Momo was then taken outside, where he kicked out at a police dog and was bitten on the leg. Tlie defendants gave evidence that they had been invited to the party by a girl who had been asked to invite some people. They said that they had just arrived when the police came and arrested them. They had gone to the house only once, the defendants said. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) FINED $2OO Ross Robert Norton, aged 20, a carpenter (Mr J. L. Woodward), was convicted and fined $2OO and disqualified from driving for 18 months from March 22 when he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving with an excessive bloodalcohol content (187 mg.