POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 25768, 15 April 1946, Page 9

POLICE COURT

MONDAY, APRIL 15. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) ' INTOXICATED IN CHARGE. Seen to be driving in an erratic manner through Custom-house Square, Edward Cherrie Neil, a machinist, aged 22, was apprehended on Sunday morning in Rattray street, and appeared this morning charged with being intoxicated while in charge of a motor car. Senior-sergeant H. Hogg, outlining the charge, said that the accused' had been at a party at Burnside. There had been no accident. Representing the accused, Mr C. H. Stevens entered a plea of guilty. The accused, he said, had not driven in from Burnside. but only from the Leviathan corner. The accused was fined £ls, with medical expenses £1 Is. His license was suspended, for 12 months. Default was fixed at seven days' imprisonment. CHARGE OF DESERTION. William Thomas, a seaman, who had been remanded in custody from Friday, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment on a charge of desertion from his ship. An agent of the company gave evidence that the accused had been drunk, andi missed his ship. He could not say whether the action was deliberate or not..but the accused l had given himself up, FALSE PRETENCES. A married woman, whose name was suppressed, pleaded guilty to two charges of false pretences. As described by Chief-detective T. Y. Hall, her offence consisted of ringing up florists, and ordering flowers in the. names of other people. The names given had been, those of relatives of hers. Two different florists were involved, and in the case of one she had also ordered flowers for fictitious ipatients in the Dunedin Public Hospital, and a wreath for a deceased person who did not exist. The amounts owing had in each case been paid by the offender. Mr J. G. Warrington, who represented! the accused, said that she was aged 29, and the mother of three young children. She hadl made full restitution. She could give no excuse, and felt her position very keenly.

The accused was convicted and placed on probation for 12 months. , OFFENSIVE MATTER. Ivor John Morton, a motor apprentice, aged 18, was fined £1 10s with costs for casting offensive matter in a doorway. ILLEGALLY ON PREMISES. David 1 Owens, a watersider, was fined £1 and costs for being found unlawfully on licensed premises after hours. The accused, who was found in a backyard, said he had been to visit a friend. DELIVERING FIREARM. A nominal penalty of ss, without costs, was imposed on Leslie Richard Little, who pleaded guilty to the delivery of a firearm to another person without a permit.