CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22744, 3 December 1935, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT

Monday, December 2. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Martin Sullivan was fined 10s, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, for drunkenness, and Daniel Taylor, aged 71, who spent the week-end in the cells, was convicted and discharged for a similar offence. Alexander Alfred Tyrie was fined 12s 6d, in default 24 hours’ imprisonment, for drunkenness, and for procuring liquor while prohibited he was convicted and discharged. INTOXICATED IN CHARGE. Arthur Dewhurst, a contract builder, aged 50 (Mr 0. G. Stevens) pleaded guilty to a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor car in Bowen street on Saturday evening. He was fined £lO and was prohibited from driving for 12 months. —According to Sergeant Forsyth, Dewhurst was driving a car along Bowen street on Saturday evening and collided with an electric light post. The car was badly damaged, and the post was damaged to the extent of £3 6s. When the police arrived on the scene they found Dewhurst and another man who had been a passenger in the car in a drunken state.—-Mr Stevens appealed to the magistrate for leniency, and asked that Dewhurst be allowed to retain his driving licence. —“ There seems to be a feeling that applications for the suspension of the cancellation of licences can be made and easily made,” said the magistrate. “I will not deal with an application for review in this case. If the accused thinks he has been harshly dealt with he has the right of appeal.” THEFT OP CAMERA, “ This man has had chances and has not taken advantage of them,” said his Worship when sentencing William Palmer Foley, aged 50, to six weeks’ imprisonment for stealing a camera valued at £ls, the property of David James M'Phun, on November 22. Foley, who was represented by Mr C. J. L. White, pleaded guilty.—Chief Detective Young said- that the complainant left the camera in his car and when he returned he found that it was missing. The same day Detective Marsh saw Foley in the_ doorway of the Crown Hotel, and in an attache case which he was carrying the detective found the camera. There was no doubt that Foley was addicted to drink,, but he had a bad criminal record. ALLEGED FALSE PRETENCES. Ernest Andrew Manchester, a salesman, aged 53 (Mr C. A. Hamer), was charged with obtaining £1 10s from W. 1 Prudhoe at Auckland in December, 1933, by means of a false pretence, and was remanded to appear on Friday next. He was allowed out on his own recognisance of £lO, and was ordered to report daily to the police.