POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 12

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) .'ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE. A further remand until December 13 was granted in the case in which Cecily Fitzmaurice (35) r is charged with the attempted murder of her child, Nancy Eileen Fitzmaurice, at Oamaru, on September 10. • . * LICENSING BREACH. Michael Kean, licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel, was charged with selling liquor after hours, and _ his wire, Margaret Kean, with supplying liquor under similar circumstances. Mr li. 11. Simpson appeared for the defendants, both of whom pleaded guilty. Inspector O’Halloran said that the police visited the hotel shortly after 8 o’clock on October 20, and found Mrs Kean and seven men in the bar. JJne of these men liad a legitimate right to he there, as boarders, but the other two, —David Guyton and Steven Wil- ‘ liam Boreham—were unlawfully on the premises. Guyton stated that he intended to stay the night. It was not a very bad case. , , _ , ... Mr Simpson said that Guyton did not know the number of his room when the police interrogated him. He had stayed at the hotel on numerous previous occasions, and did stay that night. As far as Boreham was concerned, the licensee was surprised to , find that he was in the bar. Kean had left the bar for a moment to speak on the telephone, and when he returned Boreham was in with the others, stating that he had followed some sailors, who were boarders, into the hotel. . ~ Kean was fined £3 and costs, and his wife £2 and costs. Boreham was fined £1 and costs. The charge against Guyton was dismissed, the magistrate accepting his statement that he was in fact a boarder. GRAZING COWS. Thomas William Dickson was fined ' 10s and costs (10s) for allowing cows to graze on the Ocean Beach Domain, UNLICENSED MILK SELLER. Richard Henry Mayfield was- pro- \ ceeded against for selling ice cream without written permission and for selling milk without a license. He pleaded guilty to both charges. After the facts had been heard, Mayfield was convicted and discharged on the first charge and was fined £2 and costs (10s) on the second. EMPLOYMENT OF ASSISTANT. James Jersey Dairies was fined £1 tnd costs for employing an assistant for more than, 48 hours in one week. MOTORISTS* OFFENCES. Charles Harvey Croft was fined 5s and costs for driving an unlighted car. Tom Pike was fined 5s and costs for Tiding a motor cycle without a license. STAGING ERECTED. •Benjamin Brown and John Andrew Orlowski were jointly charged with erecting a staging without a permit, and with cutting a protection fence without a permit. It was explained that the staging was. erected to accomodate a motor car. Brown was the occupier of the property and Orlowski the owner. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate said it was clear that in order to give access from the street in question to the houses bridges were • necessary, and as Brown had a car it was a sensible arrangement to erect the staging to keep the car off the street. Unfortunately, however, no permit to do this had been obtained. The matter was adjourned for a fortnight to enable Orlowski to fit a rail round the staging to the satisfaction of the city engineer.