COURT NEWS

Grey River Argus, 4 June 1937, Page 5

COURT NEWS

SENTENCE FOR STABBING. (Per 'Press Association). DUNEDIN, June 3. A sentence of four and a-hnlf years * reformative detention was imposed by Mr Justice Kennedy, this morning, on Jumsherallee, 34, Indian donkeyman, who sitabbed Jabidallee, the serang of the vessel Olivebank, at Ravens--bourne, on April 9. His Honour added that, if the circumstances warranted such a course, prisoner would doubtless be returned to India earlierCounsel (Mn Warrington) claimed the prisoner’s story was more likely than /that of the serang, who should have been his guide, but was really fleecing him, and when he made an appeal for money for his mother, struck him, also calling him a pig’s son, which i s a dealy insult to a Mohammedan. The Crown Prosecutor said that counsel’s attack on the veracity of a Crown witness was unjusitified, and the knifing was an unprovoked and atrocious crime. There was not a jot of evidence to substantiate accused ’s story. INTOXICATED DRIVER. WELLINGTON, June 3James Sidney Porter,. 28, jockey and taxi driver, was fined £lO with cosits, in default 21’ days’ imprisonment, for being intoxicated when in charge of a motor car in the city on May 26. DESERTED SHIP. AUCKLAND, June 2. “This offence is becoming too common;” said Mr W. R. McKean, S-M., when William Lounden Couperl, a steward, aged 20, was sentenced to 21 days in’ the Magistrate's Court on a charge of deserting his ship, the Waimana, at Auckland on March 12Counsel said the accused’ was very young and came from England. He was not very happy on the ship, and seemed to have found new ties in New Zealand. “The accused has an excellent character!,” said counsel- “He merely acted in youth’s impetuous way ,of doing ithings. In spite of unemployment, he got a' job the day after he deserted, and has been working ever since.” A representative of the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Shipping Company said that the companies wer e being put to much trouble by desertions. STOWAWAYS. AUCKLAND, June 2Two men, a labourer and a farm hand, were sentenced to 14 days on a charge ofl stowing away on the Wanganella alt Sydney on May 21-Senior-Sergeant Flanagan said that one of the accused, Charles- Thomas Cross, a labourer, aged 27, came to New Zealand to look for work- He had heard there wa s plenty of work in New Zealand,, but as he could not obtain the money* to come here, he took his chance in showing away, and was- satisfied to take the consequences- The other accused, George. Dudley Burns, a farta hand, aged 18, was placed again under the Child V elfare DepartmentSEQUEL TO KILLING OF CYCLIST CHRISTCHURCH, Jun e 3Charged with driving negligently and! thereby causing the death of a cyclist in Main North Road, near Amberley, Frank Rowland Coe, farmer, of Broomfield, pleaded not guilty at Amberlev Courthouse to-day, and was committed to the Supreme Court tor trial. Coe wa s the driver of a mo|tor truck which overtook and knocked d'own Christian Alfred Hadler, farm labourer, aged 57, of Greney s oacThe accident happened on the mam , highway, near: Greney’s Road, shortly y before 6 p-m- on Mav 8- Both Hadler and Coe were returning front Ambetley Racing Club’s meeting, Coe Fith three passengers in the cab of his jtriick.