Magistrate’s Court Remanded For Sentence On Burglary Charge

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 7

Magistrate’s Court Remanded For Sentence On Burglary Charge

Jewellery worth £350 was taken from display cases by William Allen Dennett, aged 21, a rubber worker, Sergeant V. F. Townshend told Mr E. A. Lee, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Dennett (Mr A. Hearn) pleaded guilty to charges of breaking and entering a jeweller’s shop in Cuba street, Wellington, on December 31, and breaking and entering offices in Brandon street, Wellington. on January 1. He was convicted and remanded in custody to Thursday for sentence.

Dennett said he pushed against the glass doors of the jeweller's shop and they broke. From the Brandon street offices the next night he took a cash tin containing three books, said Sergeant Townshend. RESISTED ARREST The accused was found near the Palm Grove Restaurant in Cathedral square with a bloody mouth and torn clothing, said Sergeant Townshend when Trevor Ross Dalton, aged 21, unemployed, pleaded guilty to charges of resisting arrest and disorderly behaviour. Dalton was convicted and remanded on bail to February 14 for sentence. Sergeant Townshend said that at 2.25 p.m. on Saturday the police were called to a fight between two youths in Cathedral square. When Constable A. C. Wilson attempted to arrest him, Dalton threatened to assault every constable in the area, and had to be handcuffed. He escaped from a police car and made off across the Square before being recaptured and placed Inside a police van. STOLE WHISKY

Three beer crates of whiskyvalued at £B9 17s were taken from the cool-room of the Valley Inn early on December 14. said Sergeant Townshend

when Kere Waihape, aged 33, a workman (Mr I. C. J. Polson), pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the hotel. Waihape was convicted and remanded to February 14 for sentence. OBSCENE LANGUAGE On a charge of using obscene language in Cathedral square on February 5, Barry Desmond Forbes, aged 20, an apprentice cabinet-maker, was fined £l5. He pleaded guilty. CHARGES DISMISSED Three charges against Walter Edward Davie, owner and licensee of the Imperial Hotel, were dismissed. The charges were of exposing liquor for sale after hours, selling liquor after hours, and opening a hotel for the sale of liquor after hours on November 21. Mr P. G. S. Penlington appealed for Davie, who pleaded not guilty. (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) DISQUALIFIED DRIVER One month’s imprisonment with his disqualification from driving extended for one year, was imposed on Reginald Wally Ruffell, aged 39, a painter (Mr E. O. Sullivan) when he appeared for sentence on a charge of driving while disqualified on January 7. On a charge of converting a trailer on November 29 Ruffell was fined £4O. (Before Mr E. S. J. Crutchley, S.M.) CHARGES DISMISSED Charges against Desmond Bohan, aged 42, a barman, of supplying liquor to a minor on October 16 and against Cavell Joseph Booth of being the manager of the Carlton Hotel in which a barman supplied liquor to a minor, were dismissed. The defendants, who pleaded not guilty, were represented by Mr J. G. Leggat