MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 November 1939, Page 2

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

TO-DAY’S GREYMOUTH CASES

Mr. G. G. Chisholm. S.M., presided at to-day’s sitting of the Magistrate’s Court at Greymouth, and Senior-Ser-geant G. Bonisch repfeSeiited" the police.

Claude Fitzgerald Cockburn, Who made a voluntary appearance, was fined. 10/- for cycling at night, without a light. For not having a warrant of fitness for. a motor-car, Ruby Jones was fined 10/-, witE 10'/- costs. Six statutory first offenders, found on licensed premises after hours, were each fiiied 5/t, with costs.

Appearing 011 remand, George Edgar Peiigelly, alias I)avid James Williams, alias James Robert Williams; 41, labourer, of Waiuta, was charged “tirat; on'January 14; 1939, at Grovetown, near Blenheirii, with intent tb defrdUd life did obtain from Ernest Edward Boddington", the sum of £5 in money by falsely representing that a cheque drawn on the Bank of Australasia, Blenheim, for the sum of £lO/9/9 Was a good and’valid order for that amount.” Accused elected to be dealt with summarily; and pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant Bonisch said that at the -beginning-^f..this -year accused, who was single, was employed' for about a week on- a station at Seddon, by A man named- A. Dalton. Accused subsequently' knocked about 'Blenlieim for several days and liiadb the acquaintance of a man named Smith. Neither had any money, and they* obtained a blank cheque from a garage proprietor, on tlie pretence that Smith was accused’s employer, and wished to pay him off. On January 14 accused, in company with two other men, went to the Grovetown Hotel and tendered the cheque as .payment for drinks. The hotelkeeper declined to cash it but after some persuasion, agreed-to advance accused £5 against it. The cheque wa.s valueless, the man Dalton, whose signature was on it, stating that it was not his cheque, and it was subsequently found' that it was the form obtained from the garage proprietor. A. warrant was obtained for accused, but nothing.was seen of him until he was located byConstable Wilson, at Waiuta. He admitted his identity, and the offence. Accused was not a stranger to the courts, having a. fairly-considerable list of previous convictions. Accused, in reply to the S.M.. said that he had nothing to say. The S.M.: There is nothing much to be said. You have a very long list, and it seems to be a- habit of yours; this sort of-thing. You-Will be convicted and .sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, with hard- labour.