CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21360, 13 June 1931, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT

Friday, June 12. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) . WANDERING STOCK. f David Anderson wan fined 40s, and costa (10s) for allowing stock to wander on a public road.—Colin Mowat was similarly' charged, and was fined ss, and costs (10s). CHIMNEY FIRES. f ‘ For allowing the chimney of his house to catch fire, James Duncan was fined ss, and costs (10a). —Similarly charged, John William-Wright was fined a like amount, with costs. SUNDAY TRADING. Gwenda West was fined 20s, and costs (10s), for selling goods on a Sunday. HOLIDAY NOT OBSERVED. Charged with failing to close his shop at 1 p.m. on a statutory*half-holiday, W. Butcher was fined 20s, and posts (10s). —, R. Fraser, who pleaded guilty to a similar' charge, was fined a like amount, with costs. - CARELESS MOTORISTS. \ Lance Frapwell, who pleaded guilty, to driving a motor . cycle negligently, was fined 40s, and costs (225). Thomas John Butler, an unlicensed motor driver, was fined 40s, and costs (10s). —Robert George Knox, who was similarly charged, was fined 20s, and costs (10s). Charged with turning his motor car at other than an intersection, Samuel Allison was fined 10s, and costs (10s) Mackay was similarly charged and was fined 10a, and costa (10s). | LICENSING BREACHES.

Herbert Charles Mountney was charged with selling liquor lifter hours. Peter Timlin, h barman employed by Mountney, was also charged with supplying liquor after hours. The two defendants, who were represented by Mr B. S. Irwin, pleaded guilty. In connection with the same offence. James Rodden, John Stenhouse, and William Wintrup were each charged with being unlawfully on licensed premises.—Sergeant M'Entee stated that, in company with Constable M'Robie, he went to the Bay View Hotel at 8.20 p.m. He found the iron}; ,door looked, and when' he knocked the door was opened by, the defendant Timlin, who immediately called loudly that the sergeant was there. Witness hear.d a scuffling of feet and the turning of the handle of the door leading.into Bay View road, and then found the three men standing in a dark corner of the passage.—Mr Irwm said that on .the night in question "the defendant Mountney was unwell, and was living at the rear of the building. He had no knowledge of what was going on. The barman was now out of work as the result of the : occurrence, and My Irwin suggested that he had already been severely punished.—The magistrate, stating that the licensee was responsible for the action of the barman, fined Mountney £5, Timlin £2 and costs, and the three men 20s each and costs. ' PROHIBITED PERSON FINED. For procuring liquor during the currency of a prohibition order William Keenan was fined 20s, and costs (10s). UNLICENSED FISHERMAN. Claude Adrian Bedford pleaded guilty to having taken a trout from the Water of Leith without a license. —Frederick David, the Acclimatisation Society's ranger, stated that on the morning of Sunday, May 31, the,defendant had gaffed a trout in the Leith between Forth and Union streets. —The defendant was fined £2, and costs (10s). j ; FALSE PRETENCES. William Dalziel Keith appeared for sentence on a charge of having obtained from Douglas Edwin Walter Bain goods and money of. a total value of £l7 8s by falsely representing that a cheque for that amount drawn on the National Bank of New Zealand, was valid.—Chief Detective Quartermain said that the accused, since the original hearing of the case, had admitted that he had filled in the body of thd cheque and had signed it. The other mam who was charged with the accused and who was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, had endorsed the cheque.— Mr Lloyd, who appeared for the accused, submitted that the latter had filled in the cheque and signed it at, the instiguation of the other man, O’Connor. The accused was muddled with drink at the time, and until the following morning he did not realise what he was doing.—After perusing a. report by the probation officer, the magistrate said he would take into consideration the fact that the accused, although he had previous convictions against him, had never been before the court- for dishonesty.—The accused was admitted to probation for two years, a special condition being that he must take out a prohibition order against himself. RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY. Maurice Albert Kilpatrick was charged with having, at Milton, received a watch and chain, Valued at £3 15s, the property of Francis Duncan, knowing the articles to have been dishonestly obtained. — Senior Sergeant Cameron said that the accused, who was a hawker, had been plying his trade in the Milton district. He had with him two boys, one of whom told him that he had seen a watch and chain in a house they had visited, and said that he proposed to steal it. Eventually he did so, and the accused bought it from him for ss. When questioned by the police he admitted the offence.—The magistrate said that it would appear to be in the interests of the public that the accused should be prohibited from hawking.—The case was adjourned until Monday, the probation officer to furnish a report in the meantime. His Worship intimated that he would direct the police to recommend to the local authority concerned that the accused's hawker’s license should be can celled. /