REMANDS GRANTED

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 280, 22 August 1931, Page 9

REMANDS GRANTED

More Charges'Pending

PISTOL DISCOVERED Yesterday’s Police Cases Arrested recently in the city and at Petone, one arrest leading later in the same night to another, William Edward Brown, cabinetmaker, aged 27, Leslie Gordon Clarke, seaman, aged 22, and Sydney John Hodge, carpenter, aged 35, appeared in the Police Court yesterday and were remanded until August 26 by Mr. E. Page, S.M. Brown was charged with breaking and entering a shoe warehouse and stealing boots and shoes to the value of £6/17/10. The other two were charged with attempted breaking and catering and theft qt the Self Help Co-op., Petone. Mr. Meltzer, who appeared for Brown and Hodge, made application for bail on their behalf. A similar application in respect of Clarke was made by Mr. T. P. McCarthy. Brown and Clarke _were each granted bail in a bond of £250, with, a surety for £250, and Hodge was allowed bail in £lOO, with a surety of £lOO. Sub-Inspector Ward said that although probably only one charge would be brought against Hodge, it was likely that several additional charges' would be brought against Brown and Clarke. The two latter bad been living together in a bach where an automatic pistol and leadloaded bludgeons had been found by detectives. Four Remands Granted Several remands were granted when defendants appeared on summons to answer criminal charges. William Herbert Webster, aged 29, who was charged with stealing articles of apparel to the value of £3/11/-, was remanded until August 28; John Cecil Whitelaw Saunders, aged 22, who was charged with the theft of an overcoat, was remanded until August 26; and Duncan Stewart Reid, who is awaiting extradition to Columbia on a ■charge of theft as an agent, was remanded until September 3. Arthur Stewart Morgan, aged 53, who was charged with indecent assault on a male, was. remanded until. August 26. Bail was allowed in £2OO, with a surety of £2OO. . / Stolen Punga Ferns For taking from a memorial reserve a number of punga ferns belonging to the Wellington City Council, Ernest Henry Pilcher was convicted and fined £lO. There were three charges against him. involving altogether 20 pungas, whose value, according to the director of parks and reserves, was £lOO. Mr? O’Shea, for the City Council, said that Pilcher had been supplying ferns for a pergola to a man in Lower Hutt. He- took some from one place, and then at least 20 from the City Council, getting £5/10/- for the lot. The magistrate, after making an inquiry as to how the value had been assessed, fined Pilcher on the first charge and gave him n month in which to find the money. On the other two charges he was convicted and discharged. Kettle and Stretcher When Stanley Nankivell and two other young men moved from one bach to another at the end of March last a stretcher bed and kettle belonging to the first bach went with them. The result was that Nankivell, who at the time of the move was under the impression that the bed ahd kettle belonged to one of his companions, was charged yesterday with stealing the articles. He was fined £2 and costs. Miscellaneous Cases As the sequel to a case in which an employee of Mrs. Cissy Mira Brough, licensee of the New Zealander Hotel, had been convicted of selling liquor after hours, the licensee herself was charged yesterday with' selling the liquor, after hours. The main question was one of .authority. Some extra;’’evidence was called, both by Sub-Inspector Lopdell and by Mr. Perry, who appeared for the licensee. The magistrate, after hearing the submissions made for the police and the defendant, indicated that he would take time to consider his decision. Through an attack which his spaniel launched against a boy on a bicycle, Sydney Mentiplay was charged with possessing a dangerous dog. Protesting that it was “not a vicious dog at all,” he was fined 10/- and costs. A dispute which occurred in Lamb-, ton and Thorndon Quays between himself and the driver of another motor-car resulted in Walter Vincent Burns being charged with, driving without a license and with’ using indecent language. On the first charge he' was fined £1 and costs, and on the second £2 and costs. For failure to pay an instalment of the unemployment levy as required by the regulations. Leslie Harold Calvert and Frederick Ernest Sayles were each fined 10/- and costs, and Simon. Edilson was fined £2 and costs. On similar charges Henry Janies Day and Allan Alexander Elliott were each ordered to pay costs. Jackson Frank Kedcfell and William Robert Stewart were each fined £2 and' costs for being found on licensed premises after hours.