POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 20473, 2 May 1930, Page 9

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY, MAY 2. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) SUPERVISION NECF ARY. Edward Charles M'Loughlin, who had previously pleadta gujJty to five charges of theft, appeared for sentence. Mr H. E. Barrowclough stated that the probation officer bad suggested that it was not desirable that M'Lougblin should go back to the surroundings in which he committed the offences. His brother had come from Auckland, and was prepared to take him into employment there.

“The probation officer does not recommend probation under your present conditions of living,” said the magistrate. “But on your brother’s undertaking to take charge of you, I proCoee to admit you to three years’ proation. You will be ordered to abstain from liquor during that period, and live with your brother.” Chief-detective Cameron mentioned that all the property stolen had been recovered. SUFFERED HER OWN PUNISHMENT.

A young woman, whose name was suppressed, appeared for sentence on a charge of the J ’ -eft of £lO in money at Pahiatua nine years ago. The Chief Detective said that he did not ask for an order for restitution, as the complainant was dead. Judging from the reports the conduct of this young woman has been all that could have been desired,” said the magistrate. “She was only nineteen years of age -/hen she committed this theft, and has suffered her own punishment. There does not appear to be any need for control to be exercised.”

The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. CHARGE DISMISSED.

An old man named Thomas Farrell pleaded guilty to a charge of being on the premises of the old defence in St. Andrew street without lawful excuse.

It was stated that Farrell lit a fire in the building. After evidence had been given by an employer of tlje defendant, the charge was dismissed. NEGLIGENT DRIVING. '

Alfred James' Calvert pleaded guilty to a charge of negligent driving. Senior-sergeant Quartermain said that the defendant drove through the Octagon to Princes street at thirty miles an hour. He failed to give way to traffic on his right, and afterwards became involved in a collision. The defendant, who denied that his speed was as stated, was fined 40s, with costs. UNLICENSED WIRELESS SET. For being in possession of an unlicensed wireless set, Barton Hobbs was fined ss, with costs. PROHIBITION BREACH. Catherine Dow, who did not appear, was charged with a breach of her prohibition order, and was convicted and discharged. MOTORISTS’ LAPSES. William Kelso Ellis, jun., was charged with driving a motor lorry without a license, and his father, William Ellis, was charged with employing him while knowing that he did not have a license. The father was fined 10s, with costs, and the son ss, with costs. John Percival Pickerill was charged with driving a car without. a license, and also passing a stationary tramcar, and was fined 20s, w r ith costs in the former charge, the latter being dismissed. The following lines with costs were imposed for driving cars without lights; —George Gray- (ss), Cyril Thomas Jeffs (ss), James Bernard M'Connell (ss), John Ernest M‘Car thy (10s), and Thomas Francis Menzies (ss, a motor lorry), Lester William Simpson (ss)j Claude Ralph Summers was convicted and discharged. , James Charles Smith was fined ss, with costs, for leaving a car on the wrong side of the street. Leaving their cars not parallel with the road direction resulted in John HPladger, George Richards, and Leslie P'lbinson being fined 5s each, with For causing an obstruction in High street, Kathleen Moore was fined 10s, with costs. Robert William Ellison M'Lean was charged with driving a motor cycle without lights and without a license, and was fined ss, with costs on the former charge, and convictel and discharged on the latter. Two similar charges were preferred against Thomas Robert Wingfield. Ho was ordered to pay 10s costs on the first, and was convicted and discharged on the latter. Dri- ing unlighted motor cycles cost Arthur Vernon Jolly and Geoffrey Orbell fines of ss, with costs, and Egmont Jacob Organ 10s, with costs. For driving motor cyc.es without a license Alfred Gilbert Boult, James Hugh Henderson, and John Thomas Craven were fined ss, with costs. Leslie Ernest Townsend was conv’.ited and discharged for riding a motor cycle without the proper brakes SEQUEL TO COLLISION.

Herbert Taylor Starkey, for whom Mr P. S. Anderson appeared, pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to give way to traffic on his right. The prose cution arose from the collision of two cars on an intersection. The defendant claimed that he was on the intersection first and that the other car was travelling too fast. After lengthy evidence had been heart! the case was adjourned until the afternoon.