CITY POLICE COURT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21148, 4 October 1930, Page 23

CITY POLICE COURT.

Feiday, Octobeb S. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) UNLIGHTED BICYCLES. F ?r riding an unlighted bicycle, Gibson URif Smith .was fined 6s, and costs, and Stanley .M'Queen, similarly charged, was convicted, no penalty being inflected. . LICE-INPECTED SHEEP, For exposing sheep infected' with lice .tor sale at Burnside, Robert Shennan was fined 10s, and costs (10s). WINDOW BROKEN. Charged with damaging a railway carriage window, at 12s 6d, Thomas Leslie Raines pleaded guilty.—lnspector Cummings- said that the defendant, with some other youths, had been skylarking on 'the Mosgiel train. The accused had accidentally, put his shoulder through the window. He had promised to pay tor the damage, but had failed to do so.—The defendant produced; a receipt showing that be had paid the amount after some delay. —The case was dismissed; subject to the payment of court costs (10s). CHARGE OF THEFT. A young man whose-name was ordered to be suppressed jn the meantime, was cbarged, with stealing's purse containing I, , s i n m °ney, and of a total value of £l k thn propSrty of, Ann Maria Tyrrell. —Mr White, who appeared for the accused, asked for a remand for a week. — The remand was granted, BOY SUPPLIED WITH GUN. Alfred William White, pleaded guilty to a charge of supplying an air gun to a boy under the_ age of 16 years.—lnspector Cummings said that the gun had been sold to a boy of 10, who had stolen some money from his parents. In another case a boy of 12 had purchased one of these guns and bad bit another boy ’in the eye, with the result that he had been taken to Hospital. If there were further cases, added the inspector, he would ask for a substantial penalty,—A fine of 20s, and costs (10s) wag imposed. WANDERING HORSE. John Anderson was fined 6s, and costs (iusj, for allowing a horse* to wander,— It was stated by the police that there had been complaints from motorists regarding horses on the rpads, , A SERIOUS OFFENCE. Edmund Thomas Russell, who was represented by Mr B. S, Irwin, appeared tor sentence on a charge of committing a aerious against a State child,— His. Worship said that in one sense the offence was non-official. He must take i? . co . ns *deration the very essential fact that where a child was placed with foster parents they replaced the natural parents, the child should be carefully brought up, ?nd his or her moral ’state attended to. In this case the girl had been of low mentality, and this was a very great aggravation of the offence. It was not a case for a - fine. The accused would bfe sentenced to one month's, imprisonment, the term to date from September 26. PROCURING LIQUOR. Christopher Hoggart Marr was charged with procuring liquor while prohibited.— A letter was sent in, in which the defendant pleaded guilty.—He was convicted and ordered to come up, for sentence if called upon within 12 months. On a similar charge Lawrence Joseph Walsh was fined 10s and costs. (10s). Ernest Alfred Wood, for whom Mr C. A. Hamer appeared, was charged .with procuring liquor while prohibited. He pleaded guilty, and was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months. CHARGES AGAINST MOTORISTS. For failing to have motor cars properly lighted, the following 1 were each lined 5s and costs: —James Ewing Bardwell, Philip Barlipg, Samuel Campbell, William Boyd Kincaid, John "Henry Pocklington, Ernest Roy Rout, Francis Walter Scott, lan Oliver Shepard, Robert- Nelson Smith, Cyril Herbert Vivian. On a similar charge, John Scddon was convicted and discharged. Robert Sim pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving, and was fined 40s and costs (10s). For allowing his motor car to cause an obstruction in High street, Thomas Somervijle was fined 10s and costs (10s). ■ Francis B. C. Ward was fined 10a and costs (10s) for driving a motor car without having a license. Arthur William Henry Reynolds was similarly charged, and was fined 6s and costs (10s). Harold H. Crump was charged with plying for hire on a motor rank without a license, and in connection with the same offence Herbert James Hastie was charged with employing an unlicensed motor driver. —Mr R. L. Fairmaid appeared for the defendants, both of whom pleaded guilty.—Mr Fairmaid said that there had been no other car in the garage, and Crump had been sent out to meet an engagement.—Hastie was fined 20s and costs (10s), and Crump was ordered to pay costs (10s).