CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23707, 14 January 1939, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT

Friday, January 13 (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.)

Motorists Charged

For failing to give way at a street intersection to traffic approaching from his right, Raymond William Breese was fined £2 and costs (10s).

Hector Louden Strang, an _ unlicensed motor driver, was convicted and discharged. Walter William Alexander Isaac Watt, who pleaded guilty to overloading a heavy traffic vehicle, was ordered to pay costs (10s). —On a further charge of carrying the wrong classification plate, he was fined £2 and costs. Herbert William Winter was fined 10s and costs (10s) for failing to procure a warrant of fitness for his motor truck.—Ernest Sydney Moore was similarly charged and was fined a like amount with costs (10s). For exceeding the speed limit in a restricted area, Percy Prebble was fined £1 and costs (10s),—Ralph S. Stockdale and Kenneth King Meiklejohn, who were similarly charged, were each fined £2 and costs (10s). Edgar Rhodes Foster was fined 5s and costs (10s) for leaving his motor car parked over a fire-plug—George Moncrieff Ford, who was similarly charged, was fined 3s and costs (12s). A charge of cutting a corner which was brought against Cyril Stanley Hercus was adjourned for three months, the defendant to pay court costs (10s), and in the meantime to attend such driving classes as ordered by the chief traffic inspector. David William Anderson was fined £2 and costs (10s) for failing to keep to the left of a roadway. Henry Johnson Turnbull, who was charged with failing to carry an inspection -certificate on a heavy traffic vehicle, was fined 5s and costs (10s). Charged with failing to carry a warrant of fitness for his motorcycle, William Francis was fined 10s and costs (10s). —William Whitworth Robinson who was similarly charged, was fined costs (10s), and on a further charge of driving without due care and attention was fined £2 10s and costs (10s). Charge Dismissed Kathleen Chooquee, John Healey, and Victor Fanning Kett pleaded not guilty to having stolen three hens valued at 13s 6d, the property of Helena Sidey.—Mr C. J. L. White appeared for Chooquee and Kett. — Giving evidence in the case against Chooquee, Robert James Pratt, a gardener in the employ of Lady Sidey, said that on the afternoon of December 8 there were 14 white leghorn hens in the complainant’s fowl pen, which was locked. On the following morning, however, the screws had been removed from the latch and three of the fowls were missing.—Constable Wroblenski said that on the morning of December 9, at the request of the accused Chooauee, he went to a house rSnted by John Healey, and noticed that there was a disturbance in the bedroom. On entering, he found Chooquee there in company with three men. While passing through the kitchen, witness noticed what appeared to be cooked fowl and rice on a large plate, and on asking Healey what this was. the latter replied that he thought it was pork. Chooquee said that it was a cooked fowl which she had purchased from a poulterer in the city. Further investigation, however, disclosed a white feather on the floor, and in the oven, a plucked fowl which still had traces of white feathers adhering to it. When a subsequent visit was made to the house in company with Sergeant Stark, three pairs of fowls’ legs were found in a pot in the kitchen, as well as some partlyformed hens’ eggs. A sack with white feathers in it and some partially burned white feathers were also discovered. —To Mr White: His reason for going to the house was that Chooquee had complained that she had been assaulted by Kett.— Sergeant Stark gave .evidence that the accused had denied all knowledge of the missing fowls.—Mr White, at this stage, submitted that there was no suggestion of a case against Chooquee, and the magistrate. for lack of evidence, dismissed the charge.—ln view of this decision, the police withdrew the informations against the other two defendants.