Magistrate’s Court Remand After Pleading Guilty To Escaping

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30959, 15 January 1966, Page 17

Magistrate’s Court Remand After Pleading Guilty To Escaping

Handcuffed to a constable, Kelvin Lawrence Weaver’ aged 25, a seaman, appeared In the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of escaping from Paparua Prison on December 29, and after pleading guilty was further remanded to January 20. Weaver had refused to give much information to the police, or the reason for his escape, Sergeant P. J. Alty told Mr H. J. Evans, S.M. When arrested aboard the Hinemoa on December 30, Weaver was wearing civilian clothing, which he said he had bought from a friend, whose name he refused to divulge, said Sergeant Alty. The police could not ascertain whether this was so, or whether the clothing was stolen. Weaver was also charged with the theft of a wristwatch, valued at £3, and a Cook's and Stewards’ Union book, from the cabin of John MacFarlane Black, a steward In the Hinemoa—to which he also pleaded guilty. Weaver, said Sergeant Alty, admitted getting aboard the Hinemoa at 1.30 p.m. on December 30, and stealing the articles soon after.

Weaver was arrested by a party of detectives who boarded the Hinemoa before it sailed for Wellington, he said. FOUND IN YARD

A police car parked across a gateway in Papanui road on the night of January 13 prevented two youths making their escape when found in an enclosed yard, said Sergeant Alty. Alastair Francis Devenish Meares, aged 17, an apprentice upholsterer, and Phillip Arthur Thompson, aged 18, an apprentice mechanic (Mr S. G. Erber), were charged with being rogues and vagabonds in that they were found by night in the yard at 477 A Papanui road. They were also charged with the theft of a carburettor worth £3 from McPhail Motor Parts, and the theft of eight kickboards worth £2 from Foam Plastics, Ltd., on January 13. After the accused had pleaded guilty to all charges, they were convicted and remanded on bail to January 20 for sentence. Suppression of their names was refused. Sergeant Alty said the accused went to the rear of the premises of Foam Plastics. Ltd., in search of scraps They found none, and so took the kiekboards. They then took a carburettor off a partly-wrecked car. DISQUALIFIED DRIVING

Colin Malcolm Hardaker, aged 27, a driver’s assistant, was convicted after pleading guilty to driving while disqualified in Christchurch on October 27, and remanded on bail to January 20 for sentence.

Hardaker faced further charges of the theft of £2 9s 6d on October 27, and of failing to report while on bail from January 8, but did not enter pleas, saying that he would seek legal advice. ASSAULT CHARGE

Appearing on a charge of assaulting his wife on Thursday, after being convicted and fined £6 on Thursday morning for such an offence, Leslie John McCreath, aged 52, a truck driver, was remanded on bail to January 20, without a plea being taken. It was made a condition of bail that he keep apart from his wife during the period of remand. CREDIT BY FRAUD

Robert Murray Hall, aged 17. a paper-maker from Mataura, who jumped aboard a Christchurch-bound rail-car at

Kaikoura without paying £1 19s for board and lodgings at the Adelphi Hotel there, pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining credit by fraud. Hall was convicted and remanded on bail to January 20 for sentence.

Sergeant Alty said that Hall booked in at the hotel early on January 13 and on awakening later in the morning went to the Kaikoura Railway Station to collect his luggage. The proprietor of the hotel saw Hall board the rail-car, and was assured by Hall that his bill had been paid. When the police met the rail-car in Christchurch thev found that Hall had enough money in his possession to have paid for his lodging, said Sergeant Alty. Hall claimed he boarded th 3 rail-car on the spur of the moment. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley. S.M.) TOLD TO GO HOME “Go back to your parents In the country and stay there. You are too young to be living your own life in the city,” said the Magistrate to Brian James Jacobsen, aged 18, unemployed, who appeared for sentence on a charge of theft of money and milk tokens from Trent street, Avonside, on January 11. As Jacobsen had been in custody for two days, the Magistrate said that that would be sufficient penalty, Jacobsen being convicted and discharged, on the condition that he lives and works as directed by the probation officer.