MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23965, 4 June 1943, Page 3

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

THURSDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) CHARGE OF ASSAULT Hugh Thompson, aged 54 years, was charged with assault on Brian Ross Kay. a naval seaman. Sub-Inspector J. F. H. Nacnamara said the case was a peculiar one. Kay was driving a car and while awaiting a traffic signal he had been approached by Thompson. who asked for a ride. The naval man had obliged, and it was in the car that the assault took place. Kay then took Thompson to the police station. Asked by the Magistrate whether he had anything to say, Thompson replied. "I remember nothing about it.” "You’re lucky the naval man did not treat you as you deserved,” said the Magistrate in ordering Thompson to come up for sentence if called on within three years. HARD LABOUR Roy Simon Charles Sullivan (Mr D. W. Russell) pleaded guilty to assaulting a girl, aged 18 years. He was sentenced to four months’ Imprisonment with hard labour. It was said In evidence that accused was a single man. a good cook, and that he hac' been in the Army for two years. The Magistrate: Why has he been kept here for two years while married men are being sent away? It seems strange. UNLAWFULLY ON PREMISES For being on enclosed premises at 36 Southwark street without lawful excuse, Olive May Waldron was fined £5, in default 10 days’ imprisonment. REMANDED Howard Graham Baldwin (Mr J. K. Moloney), aged 18 years, an aero mechanic, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing £5, the property of Allan Stuart Anderson, and to a further charge of stealing £6, the property of Samuel Harry George Luff. Senior-Detective Nuttall said the accused had gone to a locker in the smokeroom at an aerodrome and had taken £6 from Luff, the money being planted in the rafters of the room. He later extracted £5 from Anderson’s money-belt. There appeared to be no real reason for the theft. Accused had money of his own. . ~ The Magistrate said the class of offence seemed rife, and enough warnings had been given by the Court. For the purpose of securing a report from the probation officer, accused would be remanded in custody for one week. Allen Mervyn David Rowe (Mr J. K. Moloney) was charged that with Intent to defraud he attempted to obtain from Robert Alexander McLean Sinclair goods to the value of £4 11s and £l3 9s in cash by falsely representing that a cheque for £lB in favour of self and signed T. Leech, was a good and valid order. On the application of the police a remand to June 10 was granted, as it was stated other cases were pending. LIQUOR NEAR DANCE HALL. Leonard Brennan and Cyril James Hamilton were each fined 10s for being in possession of liquor when near a dance hall at Prebbleton. DEFENCE REGULATIONS James Colin Stanley Coppln was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment, to be followed by defaulter's detention, for failing to obey the order of a superior officer. Sub-Inspector Macnamara said Coppln had refused to don the uniform when ordered to do so. Coppin told the Magistrate he was a conscientious objector. He had lodged an appeal which was dismissed, with a condition that he perform non-combatant service. This he refused to do. Neil Quentin Elstob, Joseph William Groom, and Denis Wren, who had been remanded from a previous sitting of the Court when charged with failing to attend Home Guard parades, were each fined 20s. Since their first appearance at Court all three had fulfilled their obligations. Carl Henry Hcrgenhan pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to attend Home Guard parades as required under the Emergency Defence Regulations. An Army officer said accused had been directed to report and had not done so. Herningham said he was exempt from all parades and produced a notice for his exemption from all parades. Sub-Inspector MacnamarJ said the charge was laid on May 9, and the exemption was dated May 19. The Magistrate, in dismissing the charge, asked why it should have been proceeded with after the exemption notice had been issued. UNLAWFUL CONVERSION Edward Thomas Loudon, who pleaded not guilty to the unlawful conversion of a bicycle valued at £6, was fined £6. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE Alexander William Charlett, a soldier, aged 20 years,- pleaded guilty to attempting to break and enter the premises of Harold William James. 179 Victoria street. The police evidence said that accused had been questioned as to" the ownership Of 'a bicycle he. was riditlg; and when searched at the police-station he had with him a chisel. Later it was found that an attempt had been made to break into James's shop, and the chisel fitted exactly the marks made on the door. Charlett was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. CHIMNEY ON FIRE The New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association (Mr C. S. Thomas) was fined 10s for allowing a chimney to catch fire,