CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23857, 11 July 1939, Page 6

CITY POLICE COURT

Monday, July 10 (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M) Drunkenness A first offender charged with drunkenness, was fined 10s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. A Further Remand Frederick Gordon, who was represented by Mr O. G. Stevens, appeared on remand on a charge of robbing with violence James Edgar of £3 18s, two bank books, tobacco, and throat lozenges of a total value of £4.—Chief Detective Holmes said it was a matter that would have to be dealt with by the Supreme Court. He asked that a date be fixed for the hearing of evidence, a s it was a lengthy matter.--The magistrate adjourned the case until Friday afternoon, bail being allowed as before. Indecent Exposure Thomas James Dawson, for whom Mr C. J. L. White appeared, came before the court for sentence on a charge of indecent exposure.—After studying a medical report, the magistrate said that the accused had been convicted twice before, but he would give him a further chance and place him on probation for three years. Conditions or probation would be that he took out a prohibition order and kept it renewed, and that he observed the conditions of probation. He would be required to submit to such medical examinations as were required by the probation officer, and to pay any medical fees incurred. He was also ordered not to go out at night, unless to work, except when accompanied by his wife. "If you come before the court for breaking your probation," his Worship said, "you will be sentenced to_ a year's imprisonment or a longer period of detention. It is only on the pleas of your wife and brother that I am giving you this chance." " Living Immoral Life " Violet Margaret Sullivan Campbell, aged 21 years, appeared on remand on a charge of being idle and disorderly, the case arising out of a raid by the police on a house in Russell street 10 days ago.—Mr O. G. Stevens, who represented the accused, said that she was only 21. and that for the past two years she had been trying to make her own way in life without the benefit of home surroundings. There had been nothing against her until she went to Port Chalmers, where she

had been associated with the other accused, Margaret Susanna Clarke, who was sentenced last Wednesday. She was a first offender, and if she were sent to an institution the contacts there would not do her any good. He asked that she should be given a chance to become an asset and not a liability to society. She had had. her lesson, counsel contended, for she had tasted prison life for seven or eight days. If she failed to make good, she could then be dealt with by the court.—" Considering all the circumstances," the magistrate said, "I am satisfied that the accused was living an immoral life, and she should be kept away. from her. former associations. I shall, therefore, make an order that she be sent to the Salvation Army Home in Christchurch for six months."