Magistrate’s Court SECOND CHANCE FOR YOUTH: PROBATION TERM

Press, Volume C, Issue 29499, 28 April 1961, Page 18

Magistrate’s Court SECOND CHANCE FOR YOUTH: PROBATION TERM

“I intended sending you to Borstal but after reviewing your counsel’s submissions and the good record of work you have I will convict you and admit you to two years’ probation,” Mr A. P. Blair, S.M., told Henry Hokiora Dewes, aged 20 (Mr G. R. Lascelles), in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Dewes appeared for sentence for unlawfully converting a truck and attempted theft.

A condition of Dewes’s probation is that he is to assign £lO5 from moneys due to him from an estate to the probation officer to be used as restitution for damage to the truck he converted, and his driving licence was cancelled for three years. / Mr Lascelles said that Dewes had a fine record as an athlete and while at school had won a prize for oratory, the speech being broadcast over the radio. “His employer speaks highly of him, and if he can break away from the company which has influenced his recent bad behaviour, Dewes could become a good citizen,” counsel said. TWO YEARS’ GAOL Appearing for sentence on three charges of converting motor-cars and two charges of breaking and entering and theft, Leslie John Stack, aged 20, a workman (Mr Lascelles), was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment on each of the breaking and entering and theft charges and one year’s imprisonment on the conversion charges, the sentences to be concurrent.

The Magistrate told Stack that he had disregarded the leniency the Court had shown him on previous occasions, and imprisonment seemed to be the only deterrent for him. HOSPITAL REPORT

Peter Anthony Lloyd, aged 22 (Mr B. McClelland), who appeared for sentence on eight charges of unlawfully taking power-cycles, motorcycles, and motor-cars, and one charge of theft of £l. was remanded to Sunnyside Hospital until May 25 for observation and a report.

Mr McClelland said that in asking for Lloyd to be given hospital treatment he did so after talking with Lloyd's parents, who were disturbed at the mental aspect of the crimes and Lloyd's growing tendency towards alcoholism. FALSE PRETENCES

Pleading guilty to four charges of false pretences. John Steven Maddock, aged 24 (Mr B. J. Drake), was placed on probation for two years and ordered to make restitution of £4O.

Mr Drake said Maddock was a good worker and highly thought of by his employers. The offences were committed after Maddock opened a cheque account to purchase a car and then made more purchases without funds in the bank.

LIQUOR OUTSIDE DANCE For being in possession of liquor outside a dance at the Lakeside Hall, Leeston, on March 18, William David Duncan, John David May, Murray Arthur Pratt and Peter Gordon Eden were fined £3.

William King Allan. Anthony Rowland Challis, Hugh Charles Foster, Peter John Lili, and Howard Coul-son-Smith were fined £3 each for being in possession of liquor near a dance at Tai Tapu on March 25. LICENSING CHARGES

For being on licensed premises after hours. William Graham Millar was fined £3. On similar charges, Thomas William McLean, Colin Warner, Bernard King. Alan Archer, Ernest Frederick William Cox, and Stewart Munro were each fined £3. On a charge of falsely representing himself to be a lodger in the hotel, McLean was fined £lO. Sergeant R. G. Gargett said that he and a constable entered the private bar of a hotel at 6.45 p.m. on March 13. McLean and five men were in the bar, and McLean claimed that he was a lodger in the hotel and was entertaining the other men. A check of the hotel’s records showed that McLean was not a lodger. Sergeant T. A. Manon, who prosecuted, said there

was no evidence to suggest that the five men knew McLean was not a lodger and had connived at the attempted deception. LIQUOR UNDER 21

Barry John O'Loughlin, aged 19. an electrician, and Rex Robert Stackhouse, aged 19, a bootmaker's apprentice, each were fined £4 for being in possession of liquor and intending to consume it in a public place while under the age of 21. Sergeant Marson said that while a constable was speaking to the occupants of a parked car in Cathedral square on February 19, the back door opened and the constable noticed beer bottles in the car. The youths admitted they intended to drink the beer. CHARGE DISMISSED A charge against Nicholas John Mac Gibbon (Mr R. G. Blunt) of being in possession of liquor while under the age of 21 and intending to consume it was dismissed. SUSPENDED SENTENCE Doreen Francis Paviell. aged 38, was ordered to appear for sentence if called on within the next six months when she appeared for sentence on charges of obscene language and assaulting a police officer on March 28. Paviell pleaded guilty to both charges, and was represented by Miss A. Bareham. ILLEGALLY ON RACECOURSE

Charles Edgar Joseph White was fined £2 for being found on the New Brighton racecourse on March 18

when he was a person disqualified from being there He pleaded guilty.

CHARGE DISMISSED A charge of unlawful carnal knowledge was dismissed after it was said that the girl involved was now married to the accused.

Sergeant Marson called the wife, who claimed privilege and refused to give evidence against her husband. An order was made for suppression of names of the husband and wife. PROBATION "I am going to give you a chance to make something of yourself.” said the Magistrate when he admitted Francis Leslie Ward, aged 39 (Mr C. B. Atkinson), to probation for one year on two charges of theft on March 29 The value of the property involved was £36 19s 6d. An order was made for the return of the property. Appearing for sentence on

a charge of warehouse breaking and theft at Ballins Industries, Carlyle street, on March 11. Kevin Allan Whitby, aged 17. an aporentice coppersmith (Mr D. J. Hill), was placed on orobation for two years. He war ordered to pay £79 19s 6d restitution and £2O towards the cost of orosecution.

George Edward Tinkler, aged 22 (Mr B. J. Drake! was placed on probation for one year when he appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing property valued at £l5 2s 6d. the property of Herbert Nimo Samuels. An order was made for restitution. FINED £lO Pleading guilty bv letter to leaving broken glass in a nublic place on March 11 Gerald Francis Fl-mn, seed 22. and Arthur Leslie Lillv aged 21. were both fined £lO FIREARM BREACHES

The defendant told the nolice that he was trying to shoot a cat climbing a fence but aimed a little high and hit a neighbour's water tank said Sergeant Marson • when Clement Neale Taylor, aged 63. appeared on a charge of discharging a firearm in a manner that could have been dangerous on November 11.“ Taylor, who pleaded guilty, was fined £4. On a further charge of failing to notify his chance of address, he was fined 10s He pleaded guilty to this charge also. Elvln Alex Robert Ponlling seed 21. a timber worker was fined £1 for delivering a firearm without a permit. THEFT OF RADIO James George Darrell aged 28. a moulder, was remanded to May 8 for sentence when he appeared on a charge of stealing a portable radio valued at £2l. the property of Rieearton Electrical Supplies. Ltd. Darrell pleaded guUty.

REMANDED Eric Cleon Rush was remanded to May 4 on a charge of false pretences. An application for bail was refused after Sergeant E. S Tuck said the police opposed bail as other charges were pending and Rush had no job or permanent address. Anthony John Howard (Mr A. Hearn) was remanded on bail to May 4 on a charge of theft of £2. Richard Sutherland Alexander. aged 21 (Mr Blunt), was remanded to May 4 on a charge of ship desertion. Charged with housebreaking and theft on February 26, Ronald Charles O’Connor, aged 32. was remanded op bail to May 4. Neville Thomas Blackmore (Mr Drake) was remanded on bail to May 4 on a charge of assault on April 21.

A man was remanded to May 11 on a charge of indecent assault on a male at Christchurch on or about April 14. The man was granted interim suppression of name, and bail was allowed.

On charges of theft of £6 on April 17 and housebreaking and theft on January 28. Brian Peter Meadows was remanded to May 4. Bail was refused. Edward Brand, aged 29, was remanded to May 11 on two tharges Of unlawfully taking a motor-truck. John Richard Vivian (Mr Drake) was remanded on bail to May 18 on a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm. LOUSY SHEEP The following were fined for exposing lice-infested sheep for sale at the Addington saleyards.—Ethel Oliff Beddis and Thomas Carnegie Brown. £4; Richard B. Johnson, £4; Joseph David Gallagher, £5; Ronald and N. M. L. Galletly, £4; Raymond George Clifford, £5; M. R. Gilmore, £4; A. M Hopkins, £4; Theodore Adolphus Grose. £4; John H. Harris, £5; Bernard Mercer, two charges, £5 and £1; T. R. Mounsey. £3; John Joseph Nesdale, £4; Gordon Nurse, £4; Edmund Peter Vaughan, £3. TRAFFIC CASES

On traffic charges brought by the Transport Department, offenders were dealt with as follows: No warrant of fitness: William Barry Cook, £2; Peter Graeme Eden. £2; Keith Westlake Kennedy, £2; Robert Noel Pattison, £2; Adrian White, £4.

Exceeding temporary speed limit: Charles Russell Jane, £3; Elaine Grace Johnstone. £3; John Donald Beith Reid. £5; Rex Leland Thomas. £3; John Albert Twaddle, £3. No heavy trade licence on heavy motor-vehicle: Lionel James Morris. £3. Exceeding 30 miles an hour with rider and pillion passenger not wearing safety helmets: Alan Gorman, £3.

Power-cyclist towing cycle: Trevor Neil Morgan. £2. Exceeding 30 miles an hour: William Leslie Black, £4: James Brockenridge Mudgeway. £3: Clyde Henry Shepherd, £3. No blue tight on vehicle drawing trailer: Philip Hedley Brown, £2 (no warrant of fitness, £2). Exceeding 40 miles an hour with trailer. Horatio Robert Bell, £lO.

Parking offences: John Demmock, £3. Heavy motor-vehicle exceeding 30 miles an hour: lan Langford Russell, £4. Wrong class of driver’s Hcence: Barry Keith Gregory

Driving without due care and attention: Ivy May Mitchell. £5.

Overtaking on a pedestrian crossing: Alfred Ernest Millar, £6 (no driver’s licence, £3). No certificate of fitness on licensed goods service vehicle: Ronald David Shaw £3. (Before Messrs F. J. C. Dann and W. w. Laing. Justices of the Peace). driver for trial Clifford Thomas Gundry, d T 52 • freezing worker <Mr Lascelles), was committed on bail to the next sitting of the Supreme Court on . a c " ar « e of driving while under the influence of drink or drugs and thereby causing bodily injury. , u s ? r £ eant 3 F Wau « h Mld that he went to an accident in Russley road at 10 p.m ?” M, SS h 19 “ and after talking to Gundry. who admitted being the driver of one of the car* involved, he ar-

rested him and took him to the Central Police Station. Dr. P. B. Mating said that he examined Gundry at 115 p.m. and considered him under the influence of alcohol and not fit to drive. The driver of the other car in the accident, Howard Richards, said that Gundry swung on to the wrong side of the road, and Brian Vincent Murch, who saw the accident, said that Gundry's car had been swerving all over the road and just before the accident it was on the wrong side. Martin Slade Jone*, aged 48. said that he was a passenger in Gundry's car at the time of the accident. They had been at an all-day bowling competition at Rakaia, and he had about 12 beers after 5 p.m. He did not know how many Gundry had. Jones said that he could remember little of the accident, as he had been dozing at the time. Yvonne Kay Hart, a passenger in Richards'* car, said that she was injured in the accident. (Before Messrs W. E. Old* and E. J. Wolf. Justices of the Peace) INDECENT ASSAULT

ALLEGED James Hunt, a ehef (Mr J. H. F. Macfariane), was committed for trial at th* next sitting of the Supreme Court on a charge of indecent assault on a small girl. He pleaded not guilty and elected trial by jury. A small room adjoining Ward one at the Christchurch Hospital was convened as a Court yesterday morning so that the evidence of Detective-Constable D. J. Elvin. who is recovering after an operation for peritonitis, could be taken.

Detective-Constable Elvln said Hunt told him on the day of the offence he had been visiting with his family and had drunk four or flv* large brandies. After he returned home he drank half a bottle of sherry, a full bottle, and then part of a third bottle. He could remember his wife going to the pictures and later to a neighbour. He could not remember going into the home of the small girl, but did not deny her story. Mr Macfarlane submitted that the evidence was no more than suspicion. An application for the suppression of the accused'* name was refused.