IN THE COURTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11326, 2 October 1930, Page 6

IN THE COURTS

JOY-RIDERS’ NIGHT OUT

COLLISION WITH ANOTHER CAR

TWO YEARS’ BORSTAL FOR TWO YOI'IHS.

(Press Association.) WELLINGTON. Oct. 1

Threo youths, Samuel Osmund Reddish, 19 years, henry Kilkolly, 17, and another, aged 17, whoso mime was .suppressed, appeared in the Magistrate's Court, Lower Mutt, and were charged jointly with inlying converted a car. Reddish was charged also with dangerous driving, driving without a license, and Inning committed a breach of Ins probationary license bv 'oonvert'.ug a car. Kilkolly was charged with driving without a license. Reddish and Kilkolly pleaded guilty to all charges. Lor die other youth, Mr. Watterson entered a plea' of not guilty. Senior-Sergeant McKilveney sa d that on Saturday afternoon the three youths visited a skating rink, alter which they prowled about to" n, and obtained drink from two hotels, in the evening they took the car. Jv >- kollv drove to i’etone. where Reddish"’ took control and collided with another car in the midst of a theatre crowd, damaging that vehicle >o the extent of £ls and the converted car to the extent of about £-4. u ‘»o other youth'had been dropped before the collision occurred. He was practically a passenger in the c<u. On behalf of this youth, Mr. U!,ttorson pleaded the influence* of drink, and that the youth was three years behind normal development and was easily prevailed on by his companlol“Tlie befit tiling to do with linn is to grant a period of probation, said Mr? McNeil, S.M. “Mo is not as bad as the others, but l cannot allow this sort of thing to go on without a at terring influence.” He was adinittec to probation for twelve months. Reddish and Kilkolly were ordered to t, detained in a Borstal institution lor a' period not exceeding two yeais.

INTOXICATED MOTORIST FINED £lO (Press Association.) ASHBURTON, Oct.' 1. William Frapcis'Tilson, 27, a nullowner, of Hinds, was lined £lO, in default 1-1 days’ gaol, for being intoxicated while in charge of a car.