POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22067, 28 June 1935, Page 10

POLICE COURT

«> FRIDAY, JUNE 28. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) TWELVE MONTHS’ PROBATION. John Oliver Walquist (57), a hawker, admitted a charge of stealing a pair of shoes, valued at £2 17s 6d, the property of W. Harris and Co. 'Chief-detective Young stated that on May 25 a lady called at Harris’s shop and bought a pair of shoes, and asked that they should be delivered to a house in Highgate. A message boy was sent up with the shoes, and, as no one was at home, he left the parcel on the doorstep. The lady later reported that she had not received the shoes, and nothing more was heard of the matter until June 21. The police then bad occasion to call at Walquist’s house in connection with another inquiry, and the shoes were found there. He first claimed that he had had them a long time, and then stated that he had found them in a gutter in Highgate. The shoes were m fairly good order, but the complain, ant said that they had been damaged to the extent of about 12s 6d. Walquist had never > been in trouble before. . . • Mr J, S. Sinclair said that his instructions were that Walquist picked up the parcel in a gutter in Highgate He thought that the person who had lost it would advertise, but no reference was forthcoming. However, it was a foolish act on his part. Walquist was admitted to probation for 12 months. He was also directed to make restitution of 12s 6d. THEFT BY DOMESTIC.

A young girl pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing £4 in money and a sovereign case, valued at £2, from a house m the country where she was employed as a domestic. When she was interviewed by the police in Dunedin, she denied the offence, but later attempted to sell the sovereign case to a jeweller, an action that led to her being questioned again, when she admitted the charge. The chief detective added that the case had been recovered and that restitution .had been made by the girl s parents, with whom she had not been getting on too well. Mr Young .was of the opinion that strict supervision was required in this case. It had. been reported that she had been associating with a young criminal, and if she were admitted to probation it would be necessary for her future associations to be approved by the probation officer. . Adjutant Coombs said that the girl was the second youngest of a family of 11, and ill-health had had something to do with her conduct. The girl was placed on probation for 12 months, the magistrate directing that the chief detective’s suggestion as to her future associations should be observed. SUSPENDED LICENSE RENEWED. Application for rehearing of a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor vehicle was made by .Robert Julius Olsen, who was represented by Mr C. J. L. White. . It was stated that Olsen, married, aged 34, was convicted and fined £lO and his license cancelled for 10 years on October 14, 1932. Mr White said that the man was now working at Whare Flat, and was required each week-end to replenish provisions. Having no license, he had no option but to walk the 11 miles to his hut at Whare Flat. He denied that he drank when he returned to the city at week-ends, but. he was willing to take out a prohibition order if consent was given to his obtaining a license, which could be restricted to that area between his' home and his work. Senior-sergeant Packer said, that Olsen would have to try to give up drinking to assist himself. It would be in his own interests if he were to remain at Whare Flat. If .he were required to report to the police, the best time would be at the week-end, when it was alleged that he drank the most. The magistrate said that he wanted Olsen kept under supervision. Upon a prohibition order being taken out rehearing would be granted and suspension of his license cancelled. He could, however, only use his motor cycle between his homo and Wharo Flat, and if he were again brought before the court he wquld bo sent to gaol. CYCLIST FINED. For riding an unlighted bicycle Cecil Draper was fined 5s and costs. MOTOR CASES. Norman Ashmore M'Leod pleaded guilty to charges of being an unlicensed motor cycle rider, and of riding a motor cy ie without a silencer. He was fined 80s and costs. ■ *... , Robert Riddle pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to keep to the left of the centre line.T—The magistrate said that the defendant admitted that he broke the line of traffic, which was a senseless thing to do. A fine of 30s and costs was imposed. William Thomas was fined 10s and costs for. failing to give way to traffic approaching on the right. NEGLIGENT DRIVING ALLEGED. Tom Hewitt (Palmerston) pleaded not guilty to a- charge or negligently driving a motor car. r The police evidence was that at 5.45 p.m, on Juno 5 Angus Campbell Inglis (Warrington) was driving north, and about opposite the clay branch road to Purakanui was overtaken by another car Both were travelling at little more than 20 milee an hour, and when the other car was almost past Inglis the driver swerved sharply back toward the centre of the bitumen. The rear of that car bumped the front of Inghs’s car The lights of tho other car were switched off for a time, and Inglis gave chase to get the other person s number, which was accomplished. The case for the defence, conducted by Mr E. J. Anderson, jyas heard this afternoon.