MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23281, 17 August 1945, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Yesterday’s Sitting At the Timaru Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, before Mr G. G. Chisholm, S.M., Peter Seaton Hay Young was charged (1; That on July 9, 1945, at Timaru. he did steal a wristlet watch valued at £6, the property of Alexander Murray Page; (2) that on or about August 10, 1945, at Timaru, he did assume the name of Con Young, being a name other than the name by which he was known at the date of the coming into force of the Change of Name Emergency Regulations; (3) that, at Oamaru, he did steal one R.S.A. badge, valued at 3/-. the property of M. J. Nash; (4) that on or about August 9, 1945, at Timaru. not being a member of the R.S.A.. he did unlawfully wear an R.S.A. badge. Senior-Sergeant S. King said that on August 10 a complaint was laid against Young for the theft of a watch from a suitcase at Guyzen House. Young later tried to secure a loan of £2. with the watch as security, and on being questioned stated that he was “broke” and wanted to get to Ashburton. When he was arrested on the charge of stealing the watch, accused was found with an R.S.A. badge in the lapel of his coat, but said that he had not used it to secure work. “You have evidently set out on a career of crime while still a young man,” said the Magistrate, in reviewing the case. Young was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment with hard labour, on the first, mentioned charge, and on all the other charges he was coiv’icted and discharged Licence Cancelled

Charged with being found in a motor-car in an intoxicated condition on Aueust 15. 1945. Francis Richard Fox (Mr A D Mcßae) wa c convicted and fined £5. with costs. His driver’s licence was cancelled for 12 months and he was ordered to pay medical expenses of £1 T