POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 21991, 29 March 1935, Page 11

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY, MARCH 29. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) ALLEGED ASSAULT. James Martin was charged with assaulting John Purcell. Senior-sergeant Packer asked for a remand for a week, stating that the injured man had not yet left the hospital. On the application of Mr J. G. Warrington the case was adjourned for a week. DRUNKENNESS. A female first offender, t„.ity-five years of age, was charged with drunKenness, and was lined 20s, in default twenty-four hours’ imprisonment. LIT FIRE WITHOUT PERMIT. James Trower was charged with lighting a tire on his property without a permit, and was lined 5s and costs. UNLICENSED WIRELESS. Henry James M'Gavock was fined 2s (id and costs for being in possession of an unlicensed wireless set. Jack M'Gillivray and Andrew Johnston M'Kenzio were each fined court costs (10s). CHIMNEY FIRE. Ralph Fell Smith was fined the amount of court costs (Ids) for permitting a chimney to catch fire. CHARGE OF THEFT. Charles Lawrence Clark and John James Gallagher pleaded guilty to the theft on June 1, 1934, at Waithti, of a quantity of flooring boards, valued at 30s, the property of Archibald Clark. Mr Warrington Taylor appeared for the accused Gallagher. Senior-sergeant Packer said that the accused had no means when the offence was committed. They decided to go sluicing for gold, and decided to raid Clark’s shed for timber to make their sluice, and they had gone a fray sluicing. The owner of the timber informed the constable at Waitati. Mr Taylor said that apparently the boards were taken from an old disused shed. The accused were Loth cousins i the man from whom the timber was taken, and they said that only live boards were taken and that the value of each was 2s.

The complainant was called, and told the magistrate that the sited had n£lt been in use for seven years, as it was some distance from the house, but he had always intended removing it nearer.

The magistrate said it seemed rather harsh for the owner to lake proceedings for theft, and he did not propose entering a conviction. The matter would be adjourned until May 2-1, and he would fix the value of the boards taken at 15s. If that amount were paid before then, he would not enter a conviction. .MOTORISTS CHARGED. For operating an unlighted motor truck, Norman Alexander Mitchell was fined 20s and costs. Patrick Joseph McCarthy and Henry John Shand were each lined 5s and costs for leaving their cars within 30ft of an intersection. For being in charge of an unlighletl motor car, Margaret Sniaill was fined 5s and costs. Thomas Albert Young was fined 20s and _ costs on a charge of dangerous driving. Charles William Henry Bedford (Mr C. B. Barrowclough) pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to keep to the left of the road, a sequel to a collision on the bridge at Henley, in wbieb the defendant was seriously injured. He was convicted without penally.