MAGISTRATE'S COURT

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23966, 5 June 1943, Page 7

MAGISTRATE'S COURT

FRIDAY (Before Mr E. C. Levvey. S.M.) BOOKMAKER FINED. Redvers George Perkins, a baker, aged 41 years, represented by Mr J. K. Moloney, pleaded guilty to a charge of bookmaking Senior-Detective H, Nuttall said Perkins had been betting for some time, and on May 29 had laid about a dozen bets worth £5, He was not in a big way. Mr Moloney said Perkins was one of the small fry. He was only a "silver bettor.” It was known that betting was done, but there were degrees of culpability, Accused, because of his bad health, was forced by circumstances to adopt bookmaking as a livelihood. Perkins was fined £lO, in default 21 days’ imprisonment, BY-LAW BREACHES For riding an unlighted cycle at night, John Lance Collie was fined 10s. For failing to give way to traffic approaching on the right, Albert Thotnv Green and William Charles Hastings were each fined 20s and Leonard Scott Laycock £2. For having no warrant of fitness, Eric Raymond Fowler was ordered to pay costs and John Hugh McPherson and Lily Alice Mulrson were each fined ss. For driving without due care and attention, Stanley Mann wgs fined 20s, and for having no warrant of fitness he was fined 10s, Lorna Caroline Mary Campbell was fined 20s for failing to obey a traffic light signal. CHILDREN’S COURT (Before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.) A girl aged 15J years was remanded in custody until June 11 when charged that, with intent to defraud by representing that she was a relative of a certain person, she obtained a pair of shoes valued at £2 Is. The police said that other charges were pending. MAGISTRATE'S ADVICE A youth aged 15J years admitted carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 16 years. In answer to a question from the Magistrate, Senior-Detective Nuttall said the parents of the girl in question were perturbed as to her behaviour, and it was explained that the father of the boy was out of the country and the mother was In business. The Magistrate suggested "that the mother give up the stupid idea of business” and attend to her children. In placing the boy under the supervision of the Welfare Officer for two years, the Magistrate said he would have to stop going to dances and going out at night unless with the permission of the Welfare Officer. He advised him to get into some football, cricket, or hockey club. A WARNING A lad of 16 years, charged with breaking and entering, was placed under the supervision of the Welfare Officer for 12 months with a warning that misbehaviour would result in committal to a Borstal institution. A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER A boy of 10 years who converted to his own use a bicycle, said that he had found the machine. The case was remanded for six months, the Magistrate telling the boy that what he wanted was “a good hiding.”