MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 149, 21 December 1945, Page 9

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

The explanation that he had been taking medicine for his nerves and had had a few drinks in .addition, with the result that he had a "sort of blackout" was advanced in the Magistrate's Court today by John Charles Fullen, seaman, aged 34, who appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., and pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness and to two charges of wilfully breaking windows. After Sub-Inspector J. Abel had described how Fullen had been asked to leave the kitchen of a cafe in Willis Street, and had subsequently smashed the windows of the cafe concerned with a piece of timber, he added that Fullen was a returned man from the war, and it had been stated that he was suffering from shock. On the drunkenness charge Fullen was convicted and discharged, and on the other charges he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months, subject to his making good the damage immediately. Thomas Ruben Smith, aged 19, steward off the Mooltan, was convicted and fined £5 on- a charge .of unlawfully converting a motor-cycle. The police said that a constable had watched Smith pushing the mqtor-cycle away, and had accosted him. Until asked for his licence and warrant of fitness the accused had claimed that the vehicle was his. Two naval- ratings, James Joseph Lyons, aged 25, and Roy Gibson Henry Winter, aged 19, were each convicted ' and fined £1 for fighting in Cuba Street. The fight, according to. the police, happened after they had been arguing about an American serviceman who was with them. Both were drunk at the time, On a charge of drunkenness Lyons was fined 10s, and winter, who was stated to have spent the night in the cells, was convicted and discharged.