CITY POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 18741, 17 September 1924, Page 10

CITY POLICE COURT

Wednesday, September TL (Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) UNSTAMPED RECEIPT. Mrs K. Hall was charged that, at Clifton, on September 22, 1923, she signed a receipt liable for duty without its being duly stamped. The Magistrate said that the defendant had written pleading guilty through ignorance. Senior-sergeant Mathicson said that the defendant's "husband was a small farmer. They wore both very respectable people. Afine of 10s, with court costs (7s), was imposed. A RAILWAY PECULATION. Lorenzo Oaklcith Stanton was before tile Court on a charge of not stopping a motor before coming into contact with the railway line at the Rattray street crossing. tfe pleaded guilty. Mr F. B. Adams, for the Railway Department, stated that, according to the reports of the railway officials, the defendant had not taken notice of the crossingkeeper’s signal, and the train had bad to atop quickly to avoid a. collision. The defendant admitted that lie bad not stopped at the crossing, nor did scores of others. Defendant offered .the explanation that bis'car bad been coiififsdS' AVftfrTm-' other, mentioning, in support -of this theory, that the number at first given in some of the officials’ reports bad been altered. Ho added that be was known as an “ over-carefiil ” driver. While bo did nut rem'emb&r the date given in the charge, he did recall one day when a train was approaching as bo crossed, hut he was satisfied that it was not necessary for the train to stop The magistrate asked defendant for a description 0 of his car, remarking -that it tallied with the description given in the reports. Defendant was fined 20s. court costs (7s), and solicitor’s fees (£2 2s).