COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 22 August 1934, Page 7

COURT NEWS

MOORE v. BANK. FORMER LOSES SUIT. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 21. Chief Justice Myers to-day delivered judgment on the legal aspects of the case in which Frederick William Moore sued the Commercial Bank of Australia, Ltd., and its manager, E. P. Ynldwyn and also Athol Pierard and Sidnev John Hammond, claiming £l4Bl ] ()s 2d, on the ground that they had misrepresented to Moore the position of the Unique Advertising Company now in liquidation, the account ot which he guaranteed to the extern ot £l5OO. 'Phe action against Pierard and Hammond was as co-guarantors. His Honour’s decision was against Moore as regarded all the defendants, and costs were fixed as regards Pierard and Hammond. The question of costs on behalf of the Bank was reserved at the request of counsel for the Hank. FORGERY. NEW PLYMOUTH, August 20. Ntdio ||emi Papakura., Native agent ami interpreter, of New Plymouth, who pleaded guilty in the lower Court to forgery and uttering a Native Trust voucher for £lB Is id, and the theft of, the proceeds, was admitted by Justice Blair to probation for two years and ordered to pay £5 towards the cost of | the prosecution. Restitution had been made. INSURANCE FRAUDS. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 21. A series of frauds, practised on insurance companies in Christchurch, was admitted by Richard Maskell, a recent arrival from Auckland, in the Magistrate’s Court, this morning. Maskell was sentenced to eighteen months’ reformative detention. It was stated by Detective-Sergeant Holmes, during the heaiing that Maskell and another man, named Berry, for whose arrest a warrant has been issued, took out covers with insurance companies, for workers who did not exist. They next obtained certificates from doctors in tin* city, representing that they hail been injured in the course of their occupations. Maskell even obtained certificates, certifying that he was suffering from chest trouble and a broken rib. The Magistrate (Mr Mosley) remarked that it would be interesting to know the names of the doctors concerned. Maskell, who is 41 years of age, ami a native of England, used a number of aliases. Counsel stated that he was in low health, ami had been influenced by his brother-in-law, Berry, in committing the offences.

PLANNED ASSAULT. BY JEALOUS YOUTH. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 21. At the Magistrate’s Court, Trevor Lyall Evans, IS pleaded guilty, and was |comniittjed for sentence on a charge of assaulting We.lter George Hill, manager of the Self Help Store. Beckenham, in the night of August 8. In a statement mad ( . to a detective, accused said that he had been jealous of Hill for some time, because Hill used to take his girl from him in “excuse me’’ dances lie thought llill did that to make him look boyish. Ue had had this idea in his mind, for some time. On August 8 he decided to go to Hill’s shoo and give him a thrashing. He called .Hill to the door and directed a blow at him with a stick. Hill called for help, and a struggle ensued. When accused hoard people coming he struck Hill three times with a. .kerosene bottle. He wanted to knock Hill i nt, so that he could get away H'ill went limp, and accused thereupon ran away. The police stated that the assault had been deliberately planned, ami accused was very fortunate to be in Court only on minor charge. Counsel denied that accused had been masked, and said he was simply wearing a scarf, which he had been wearing earlier in the dav.