POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 23834, 14 March 1941, Page 2

POLICE COURT

FRIDAY, MARCH 14. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) ON LICENSED PREMISES. William Higginson, unlawfully on licensed premises after hours, was fined 10s and costs. GLASS ON ROAD. Russell Arthur Coulter pleaded guilty to throwing glass on the street. Seniorsergeant Vaughan said Coulter, who had been drinking, threw a beer bottle out on the roadway. It smashed to pieces. He was seen by a constable and arrested. Defendant was fined 4Qs and costs. It was a serious things to do, stated the Court when imposing the penalty, for it might have resulted in a grave accident. MOTORING OFFENCES. , Francis John Fay was fined 25s and , costs for driving past a stationary train. . Allen Leslie Mason, for failing to ■ give way at a pedestrian crossing, was fined 2os and costs. . (Llewelyn James Mears, for_ driving without due care and attention, was fined 20s, witness’s expenses 10s, and ; cost 10s. , , - Failing to give way to traffic on his right, Eric Jesse Rawnsley was fined , 30s and costs. Rupert Halls Taylor 0 for failing to have a current warrant of fitness in. respect of his motor car, was fined 10s ; and costs. OFFENDING CYCLIST, i For riding an unlighted cycle at 1 night, Norman Allan Harraway was • fined os and 10s costs. j UNLICENSED WIRING. Arthur Gerrand was proceeded , against in respect of two breaches of ■ the electrical wiremeii’s regulations. • Defendant was fined £o and costs on one charge and convicted without penalty on the other. l ALLEGED OFFENSIVE MESSAGE. l Charges of sending offensive messages ■ over the telephone and using indecent > language were preferred against Charles , James Eccles, aged 39. Represented by s Mr O. G. Stevens, accused pleaded not 1 guilty. Senior-sergeant Vaughan stated that for some considerable time messages •> had been sent over the telephone to nurses in various maternity homes. ! They were of a very offensive nature. ‘ Arrangements were made with the Post ■ and Telegraph Department that the • next time such a message was received i the recipient was to keep the line en- • gaged while someone was sent to advise i the department, and in this manner • the culprit was located. Evidence concerning the alleged ■ offence was given by a young woman, whose statement to the police allegedly i setting forth the telephone message was ’ accepted as her.sworn testimony. A mechanician from the telephone • service, Hoy Rainton Patton, detailed the tracing of certain phone calls from slot phones in the city to the nursing homo receiving the messages. He dej tailed some of the male voice conver- ) satipn he intercepted.

Police evidence was also given by Constables Sealy and Thompson, both of whom stated they saw accused in a telephone box at the corner of Rattray; and Arthur streets. (Proceeding.) ,