REMAND ALLOWED

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 287, 31 August 1935, Page 24

REMAND ALLOWED

Parliament Grounds Disturbance TWO MEN CHARGED Disorderly behaviour iu Parliament r ground,, was charged iu the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday against William O’Reilly, labourer, 33, ’ and Alexander Braid Blance, lab : * ourer, 31, who were alleged to have ' climbed on to a statue pedestal for the ' purpose of agitation at the time of the ; session-opening ceremony on Thursday I afternoon. On the application of ae- . cased they were remanded to appear . again next Friday. On their first appearance in the pri- ; soners’ stand O'Reilly and Blance , pleaded not guilty to the charge and > were stood down for the time being. I When they were called back later the ■ prosecutor, Senior-Sergeant J. Demp- ■ sey, was beginning to outline the evii deuce to be called when O’Reilly turu- ; ed to speak to the magistrate, Mr. E. D. Mosley. Mr. Mosley told him twice . to "be quiet." O’Reilly proceeded, saying they , wished to ask for a remand. “We have had absolutely no facilities for preparing ouj- defence,” he continued. “In the first place we were told we were charged with inciting to lawlessness. We asked the senior-sergeant When we were arrested what the charge was and he couldn’t tell us. Half an hour later we were told we could not be charged at present. It was later on that we were charged with inciting to lawlessness, and later still we were told it was Inciting to disorderly behaviour.” O’Reilly added that at least one person was refused to be allowed to see them. They now asked for bail so that their defence would not be impeded. Senior-Sergeant Dempsey told the magistrate he was not the senior-ser-geant referred to. The only charge that he knew of as being preferred was the present one. The only person refused admittance was a woman who said she was Mrs. Blance. Mrs. Blance was not in Wellington. O’Reilly was a married man living with his wife at Johnsonville, Blance, it was thought, belonged to Christchurch. “I will make bail light for you men because the charge is not of a very serious nature,” said the Magistrate, fixing the amounts for each at £lO and a surety of £lO. Intoxicated Motor-cyclist Albert William Martin, engineer, 29, pleaded guilty to being drunk in charge of a motor-cycle and was fined £3, in default 21 days’ hard labour. Senior-Sergeant Dempsey said that after trying to start his motor-cycle and failing, the young man was wheeling it to the other side of the road when he was knocked down by a motorcar. The magistrate made an order for the cancellation of Martin’s license for a month, but when the license was produced in court if was found not to have been renewed since last May. Martin was consequently ordered to refrain from taking out a new license for a month. Senior Sergeant Dempsey said the Incident happened at 11 p.m. on Thursday in Wakefield Street. Martin had not been previously before the court. Mr. A.' B. Sievwright, who appeared for Martin, said there was something wrong with the cycle engine, and Martin intended to park the vehicle on the other side of the road and walk home. Cloakroom Thefts Charged with the theft of four overcoats and other clothing from the cloakrooms of social and dance halls in Wellington during July and August, a 20-year-old unemployed, Eric Joseph Fleming McDonell, was ordered to the Borstal institution, Invercargill, for 12 months. McDonell was detected in an offence in the cloakroom of a social hall in Brougham Street, said Senior-Ser-geant Dempsey. At a party one of the guests missed his overcoat, which had in the pockets a tie, a scarf, and a pair of gloves, A few days later the same guest was about to go home from another social in the ball when he saw McDonell looking into overcoat pockets in the cloakroom. He recognised as his own the tie McDonell was wearing and also a scarf which was hanging out of McDonell’s overcoat pocket. Party “Gate-crashers” Having been found in the St. Francis Hall in the early hours of August 14 well after the guests in an Italian wedding reception had departed, Ronald Nelson Williams, labourer, 23, and John Marias Bernard Doherty, labourer, 23, were charged with being rogues and vagabonds in that they were there without lawful excuse. They pleaded not guilty, and the magistrate dismissed the charge. It was stated that in the room where they had been was found later a set of tire levers. They had “gate-crashed” the party. Mr. A. B. Sievwright, for Williams, said he was a brother-in-law of the second cousin of the bride. Mr. F. W. Ongley appeared for Doherty. Raid on Hotel Scraps of conversation heard by the police when making a raid on the Masonic Hotel were quoted in evidence in a charge of exposing liquor for sale after hours against the licensee, Leslie Lambess. The magistrate commented that the offence was a most deliberate breach of the Licensing Act. He'imposed a fine of £6 and costs. When Sergeant Straffon and constables were approaching the hotel on the night of August 6 someone at the door turned and went inside, said Senior-Sergeant Dempsey. As they entered they heard men leaving the bar. They followed the sounds down a dark 1 passage, and come to a wooden barricade, which had not been there when police visited the hotel on June 15. There were indications that the men had retreated to the fire escape. Later they heard someone say; “I suppose

they have gone now.” Soon after a woman called out: "All’s clear now.” The men came down the stairs and the police met them in the bar. For Lambess. Mr. G A. Wylie said two of the men, O'Neill and Henderson. stayed that night and the next at the hotel as guests. Lambess had been In the business for well over a year and had never before been convicted.

For being in the hotel after hours Claude Graham, Morpeth Henderson. George Malcolm and Charles O’Neill were each lined £1 and costs. Refusal to give his name and address to a constable when discovered in the Masonic Hotel after hours cost Charles Barrett, cabinet-maker, 49, £l, in default 48 hours’ hard labour. Sen-ior-Sergeant: Dempsey said that Barrett told the police they knew his name,

which was incorrect, and it was only after he was arrested that he gave it. Princess Hotel Conviction The licensee of the Princess Hotel. J. Elleray, was fined £2 and costs for exposing liquor for sale after hours. Senior-Sergeant Dempsey said the police who were piaklng the raid heard at the bar door a woman inside say: “You will have to go away. . The sergeant will be here at any time.” The hotel was well conducted, although the licensee had had one or two previous convictions. W. I. Turnbull, who was found in the bar, was fined £1 and costs. Mr. C. B. O’Donnell appeared' for both accused. Other Convictions

For drunkenness and wilfully damaging a menu board valued at 10/-, the property of the Salvation Army, William J. Scott, aged 54, was fined 5/-, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, and ordered to make good the damage, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment. William McDald, aged 53, who had been convicted three times previously for the same offence in the last six months, was sentenced to 14 days’ Imprisonment with hard labour for drunkenness.

On an information laid by the Municipal Milk Department before Mr. W, F. Stilwell, S.M., of “mllk-bootleg-ging," William Montgomery Faith was fined for two offences. Charged with possessing milk for sale without a license he was fined £lO and costs, and with obstructing an inspector £3 and costs.