COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 1 June 1937, Page 8

COURT NEWS

(Per Press Association). > | TIMARU, May 3' Pleading guilty to a charge of Thing intoxicated while in charge of ■ oar, A-lbejrt' Russell Perry WederelL aged 18, of Oamaru, was fined £lO and prohibited from holding a lieent’ for two years. >■ Accused collided head on with a st? tionary taxi in the early hours of -Sut day morning. WELLINGTON, May 31.1 In the Supreme Court, Thomh. Henry Munro Groves, 37, laboure”. was ordered by the Chief Justice U come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months for bigamy. THEFTS FROM CITY CARS. CHRISTCHURCH. May 31. Rifling ears in the city cm the nights of May 21 and 22. Robert. Cyril Telfer and William Thomas Croeker stol goods valued at £4B, and rangi from a- wireless set to a pair trousers 1 . Both were sentenced- tc year’s imprisonment with hard <’ our. When they appeared in the Cm ■before Mr Lewy S.M., Tolfier described as a labourer aged 42. Croeker as a butcher and laboti'. aged 46. j “The whole of these cares are thefts from motor cars. A very lar, number of complains have been r -tceived,” said Detect ive-Sergea Holmes, referring to th e eight ehargagainst the accused. “There seer to be little reason why they shou prey on people- the way they hav been doing. Both have got bad r cords.” The Detective-Sergeant said tha. Detectives Watt and Trethewey had been detailed to investigate the complaints. Suspicion had fallen on the accused and goods had been found in their house. “These thefts were committed while Under the influence of liquor.” Telfer claimed. “Most of the stuff has been recovered.” Crocker had nothing to say. “You are both aiming steadily at be4n,g habitual criminals,” said the Magistrate. “It doesn’t rest with me. but that’s what will happen.” TRIAL OF TRAM DRIVER. DUNEDIN. May 31. The 'trial commenced before Justi< Kennedy in the Supreme Court tlii morning, of Alfred Chapman. 33, th, driver of th e tram-car that left Hif - rails on the Oppho line on April 1' and careered across the footpath, ki’ 1 ing John Kenny. Chapman was char - ed with manslaughter. , % Th,, Crown Prosecutor (Mr Adair/ stated that the Crown had merely 1 prove failure to exercise a- reason:/ ’! degree of care. The evidence "’O'- 1 show that, the brakes and meelianp were in perfect order, with noth:.MJ to account for their supposed failu. j| Th e hearing is proceeding.