COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 14 May 1935, Page 6

COURT NEWS

GISBORNE BETTING FINES. (Per Press Association). GISBORNE, May 13. As a sequel to a police raid on April 29, Arthur Owen was fined £lOO on a charge of keeping a common gaming house, at the Police CouTjf, this morning. He pleaded guilty to two charges relating to separate but the Magistrate decided to treat the matter as one business, with two branches. Malcolm John Owen.' who pleaded guilty 'to a charge of assisting his father to conduct a gaming house, was fined £25. Harry Larsen, for frequenting a public place for betting,- wa 3 fined £25. Frederick L. Kenny, cha/gcd with assisting Owen, was fined £25. PRIZE COMPETITION. WELLINGTON, May 11. Mr J. 11. Luxford, S.M., gave his decision to-day in a case in which Adams Bruce, Ltd., were charged with commencing a scheme by which prizes were competed for by a mode of chance. Prizes were offered for lists of the varieties of chocolates most nearly corresponding to the correct order of sales of 'ten of the most popular varieties. The Magistrate decided that the competition was not illegal and dismissed the charge. WATERSIDER’S COMPENSATION. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 10. Damages amounting to £349 13s were awarded by a jury in the Supreme Court to Charles Reilly, a waTtfi’side worker, 'who claimed £1046 from the Napier-Wellington Transport Company, Ltd. Reilly was knocked down by one of the company’s lorries. The jury found that plaintiff anti the defendant company’s lorry driver had Both failed to keep a proper look out, but the driver of the lorry had the greater responsibility. NEGLIGENT DRIVING CHARGE. WELLINGTON, May 13. James Thomas McGinnity came before Judge Blair ait the Supreme Court to-day on a charge of negligent driving thereby causing bodily injury. This is the case in which a boy named Collins was knocked off a bicycle when coming from the Technical College and the car concerned did not stop but continued, it is alleged, with dimmed lights. WELLINGTON, May 13. In the McGinnity negligent driving /case, after a retirement of thirty minutes, the jury returned with a ver diet of acquittal. TIPSY DRIVER FINED. GIRL INJURED. (Per Press Association.) WAIMATE, May 13. A car containing two men wa§ pursuing an erratic course down High Street on the wrong side of the road about seven o’clock on Saturday evening, when it ran into Phyllis Callendar, aged 15, who was cycling on the edge of the bitumen. r l\he girl was carried about 100 feet before she dropped Co the ground, and the car proceeded nearly 200 yards dragging the cycle before the driver stopped. Meantime, an ambulance had been summoned, and the girl, who suffered a fractured leg, concussion and shock wa s being lifted in when the motorists walked back and watched the proceedings. When the ambulance left, they started the car and drove off, but landed in a ditch outside the town, where the car was bogged. The police shortly afterwards arrived and arrested the pair? Before Justices this morning, Leonard Fogarty. 31, radio salesman, Oamaru. was fined £l6 10 s with costs, in default one month’s imprisonment, for driving while intoxicated, and convicted and discharged for driving without a license. He was also ordered to pay compensation £8 10s. Thomas James Crosbie, 31, farm labourer, a passenger in the car. was fined £4 with costs for hindering a constable in the execution of his duty. ~ MAN’S THIRD TRIAL. RESULTS IN ACQUITTAL. (Per Press Association.) . NEW PLYMOUTH, May 13. The third trial of Stanley Cross on charges of assaulting a little girl and of committing an indecent act, resulted^to -night in a verdict of not guilty, dross iwas discharged. ' The juries in his two previous trials disagreed. The main point in 4 he case was *>ne identification.