CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21734, 27 August 1932, Page 5

CITY POLICE COURT

Friday, August 26. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) CYCLIST FINED, For cycling at night .without a light, Erie Ashmore was fined -ss. STOCK ON ROAD. A conviction was entered against David Anderson for leaving a cow tethered on the, road.' UNEMPLOYMENT ACT. John Burton Berry pleaded guilty to failing, to furnish particulars' as required by the Unemployment Act, and was convicted and discharged. ' CARELESS MOTORISTS, Henry Turnbull was-fined 10s-and costs (10s) for operating a motor: lorry without having obtained a heavy, traffic license. For being in charge ot an unlighted motor van, Albert Joseph Hinton was fined 5s and costs (10s). William Albert'Field was-fined 3s and costs (12s) for leaving his motor car unattended in George street for more than 15 minutes— —Similarly charged, Clayton Cagson, -Percy John M‘Kay, and- Jack Beaumont Seusted were each fined 10s and I costs (10s), and Norman A. S. Macdonald 5s and costs (10s); Arthur Coxhead, an unlicensed motor driver, -was fined 53 and costs (10s). Similarly charged, Norman Seddon Ham son': and Herbert A. Newall were each fined a like amountr(.'jU . ... *, , ' Alexander Desford 1 Gray was fined 20s and costs - (10s) for failing to- have a silencer fitted to his-motor cycle, and a like amount for failing to stop at the signal of a traffic inspector. Tor failing to leave his car parked parallel with the direction of the road, Herbert Desraoulin was fined 5s and costs (10s). -Fred Mitchell was similarly charged, and was fined a like amount. James Bennie was fined £5 and costs (10s) for failing to have proper brakes fitted to . his motor lorry. For failing ,to leave his motor van standing' under proper 'control, Peter Davis was fined 10s and ,costs (10s).— John Frame Thomson and Francis Harloe Thompson were similarly charged, and were each fined a like amount. For cutting a corner whilst turning out of Cumberland street into Rattray_ street, Malcolm Stevenson was fined 10s and costs (10s) . ' ... jr Charged with dangerous driving, Herbert William Adams was fined ti ana costs (10s). ~ , , Anthony Eric Reynolds was charged with being an unlicensed motor driver and with failing to give way at & street intersection to traffic approaching from his right.—On the first charge he was fined 5s and costs '(10s). The second information was dismissed. Russell How'ard Stewart was charged with being an unlicensed motor nriyei and with being in charge of an unlighted car .—He was fined 5s and costs (10s) on ea Leonard g Lament, a taxi driver, was fined 30s and costs (10s) for plying for hire on an unlicensed stand. , . T A conviction was entered against Ivor Robert Prescot for marking, his motor car within 60 feet of a street intersection. —The defendant was further charged with leaving his car standing in George street for a longer period than allowed for him to set down or pick up passengers, and was fined 5s and costs (10s). ADMITTED TO PROBATION. Richard John Maloney appeared for sentence on three charges of receiving stolen’ property, having previously been remanded to allow the probation officer to submit a report.—His Worship said he would take into consideration the tayomable nature of the probation officers report, and would admit the accused to probation for three years, special conditions being that he does not associate with undesirable persons during that period, and that resitution of the goods or their value be made to the owneis. INTOXICATED MOTORIST. Richard Haslan Smith was charged on I remand with being drunk whilst in charge ! of a motor car .-The police evidence showed that on Wednesday the defendant had been found by a trafhc inspector lying in a drunken state across the steering wheel of a car.—Counsel for the dofence submitted that although the defendant was technically in charge of the car, he was not driving, but was waiting for the driver who had gone to purchase some petrol.—The magistrate said that the circumstances •of the case were peculiar. The defendant would be convicted and fined £2 and costs (10s), and would be prohibited from obtaining a license for the next two years. BAROMETER STOLEN. William Palmer Foley pleaded guilty to having stolen a barometer valued at £l ,10s, the property of William ‘-M-Lach-lan.* —Chief Detective Young stated that the accused had gone to the Criterion Hotel, and after having a few drinks he took the barometer from the wall of the hall, and wandered into the street with it. When accosted by the police he was unable to give a satisfactory explanation of how he came into possession of the instrument—A- conviction was entered, and the accused was ordered to come up for sentence any, time if .called on within 12 months, conditional pn his taking out a prohibition order against himself. THREE MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. . Henry Frederick Hornby was charged with having, at Dunedin, obtained by fraud taxi hire to the extent of .£1 4s from Harold Mowat Paterson, and with having, at Outran!, stolen money and goods of a total value of £3 15s 6d, the property of Frank Douglas Reid. —A further -charge of stealing from Reid a wallet and money valued at 25s was also preferred against the accused. —Senior Sergeant Martin stated that the accused had been employed for some time on the complainant Reid’s station. The first theft was committed in March last, and the accused then went to work on one of the unemployed schemes in Central Otago, returning to his former place of

■employment at the beginning of the present month, when lie stayed at the wool-, shed and stole the wallet am] its contents when the opportunity offered. He came to Dunedin and chartered a taxi in which he went to-Outram, but on arrival there he wont into an hotel and did not appear again, although the driver waited for him for over an hour. —On the charge of theft of money and goods, the accused was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and. on the other two charges he was convicted and discharged.