CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25428, 8 January 1944, Page 3

CITY POLICE COURT

In the City Police Court yesterday, before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M., Thomas Walter Butcher, a postman, aged 20, was charged with indecently assaulting a girl aged six—Sergeant Stark applied for a remand until next Friday. He stated, that the accused was alleged to have picked up the child on his bicycle in Forbury road about 2 p.m. on Wednesday. He took her past her home to some trees near a lawn tennis court, where it was alleged the offence had occurred—To the magistrate, the sergeant stated that the accused had not actually interfered with the child.—Mr H. Ross, who appeared for the accused, asked for suppression of the name in the meantime, but the magistrate said that, considering all the facts, he did not feel justified in making an order.—The application for a remand was granted. Bail was allowed in the accused’s own recognisance of £SO, conditional upon his reporting daily to the police.

“ Tills is the first charge of being drunk in charge of a horse for years. The horse seems to have come into his own again,” said the police prosecutor respecting a farm labourer who appeared in the Whangarei Magistrate’s Court. The accused had been found asleep in the saddle, and was so intoxicated that he had to be lifted down. A fine of £2 was imposed, the magistrate remarking that' the offence was more serious to-day because of the increased traffic.