Magistrate’s Court Shopkeepers Defrauded By Confidence Trick

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 11

Magistrate’s Court Shopkeepers Defrauded By Confidence Trick

Two girls, who defrauded Christchurch shopkeepers by a confidence trick, were convicted by Mr J. D. Kinder, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court on charges of theft I They are Beverley Dawn iDoak, aged 18 (Mr D. M. Palmer) and Valerie Elizabeth Orpwood, aged 18 (Mr !W. A. Wilson). I The accused were convicted on joint charges of stealing |£4 from Murrays Chemists, i Ltd., the City Book Exchange, and Alfred George Long, proprietor of the Strand Bookshop. Doak was convicted on a charge of attempting to steal £4 from the Sanitarium j Health Food Company, Ltd. I Pleas of not guilty were en- , tered to all charges except that Orpwood pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing £4 from Alfred Long. Outlining the case for the prosecution Sergeant V. F. Townshend said witnesses would give evidence of a teen-age girl coming into their shops, making a purchase for a few shillings and tendering a £5 note in payment. A short time later another teen-age girl entered the shop, made a purchase and handed over a £1 note in payment and the, change would be given. The girl would start to leave the shop and then [would return to the counter and say that the incorrect change had been given. She would say that she had handed over £5 but had been given change for only £1 and still had £4 to come in Change.

i Sergeant Townshend said [ that witnesses would state I that the girl had said she ; could prove that she had paid I£s as she had the number of the note in her handbag. When the shopkeeper checked the cash register he found the £5 note in it with the number given by the girl. The extra £4 which was demanded was then paid to the ' girl. i A detective would give evidence that he was in one of the shops when Orpwood committed the confidence trick and when she was arrested he found goods in her possession from four of the shops which had been defrauded.

Evidence was given by Alfred George Long, Susan Willmott, Archibald Barnett Murray, May Evelyn Edwards, David Rodger, Leslie David Robert, Sandra Lynne Read and Detective Robert Graeme McMeeking. UNLAWFULLY ON PREMISES

lan Keith Morgan, aged 35, unemployed, was remanded on bail to March 11 for sentence on a charge of being found without lawful excuse in an enclosed yard in Dawson street on February 3. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Townshend said a woman was in bed at 10.10 p.m. when she heard the side gate of her property click. She walked down the front footpath and something brushed against her leg. She saw Morgan and screamed. A sergeant and a constable who happened to be in the viciniity rushed on to the property and apprehended Morgan, who smelt strongly of liquor but was not drunk. BURGLARY CHARGE Haami Tahere. aged 18, a boot assembler, was remanded on bail to March 11 for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering the Valley Inn on December 14. He pleaded not guilty and was represented by Mr A. R. Cottrell. (Before Mr K. H. J. Headifen) DROVE UNDER INFLUENCE Robert Cecil Elloite, aged 38, a barman (Mr L. M. O’Reilly) was convicted on a charge of driving while under the influence of drink or drugs. He was fined £25 and his licence was cancelled for three years. He pleaded not i guilty. I YOUTH DISCHARGED I A youth, whose name was suppressed (Mr J. E. Ryan), was discharged without conviction under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act when he appeared on a charge of wilfully damaging a motor vehicle, the property of Warner James Mauger, to the value of £26 10s in Grahams road on November 21. He pleaded not guilty. The Magistrate said that although he found the charge proved, he was not satisfied that the cost of repairs to the complainant’s vehicle amounted to £26 10s. As the complainant Mauger was the manager of the garage where his vehicle was repaired, and was thus the person who decided whether or not to charge himself with those repairs, and since there was no evidence before him of how the amount of the repairs was arrived at, he was satisfied that the defendant did wilfully damage the vehicle, but to an unspecified amount of damage only, said the Magistrate. Also beacuse of the unsatisfactory evidence regarding damages, there would be no order made for the defendant to pay costs or witnesses’ expenses. In view of the defendant’s character, which had been described as open and straightforward, his name would be suppressed, said the Magistrate. (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M.) FINED £l5 Jalal Hossain, aged 44, a cook, was fined £l5 when he appeared for sentence on a charge that on March 5 at Lyttelton he had indecently assaulted a boy aged 11. In imposing the sentence the Magistrate said that Hossain!

was due to leave New Zealand shortly in his ship. He was a Pakistani of little education and he did not think in the circumstances it was realistic to impose the more normal punishment. Hossain had only a small income and even the moderate fine he was imposing would be a hardship to him. (Before Messrs A. H. Dale and W. H. Small, Justices of the Peace). COMMITTED FOR TRIAL Appearing for the taking of depositions on a charge of unlawfully getting into a motor-vehicle valued at £250, the property of Stephen Kanter, on February 5, Joseph Maraki, aged 26, a workman (Mr D. C. McCaskill), was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Maraki, who pleaded not guilty, was remanded in custody. On a further charge of being 'a rogue and a vagabond in that being a suspected person he frequented a public place namely Moorhouse avenue with felonious intent on the same date, Maraki was committed for trial. Michael Paul Stone, a 20-year-old clerk, was committed for trial to the Supreme Court on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond in that he was found by night wearing woman’s clothing with felonious intent. The offence was alleged to have taken place in Wilsons road on December 23. On a further charge of breaking and entering the house of Michael Hogan at 137 Tennyson street with intent to commit a crime, he was also committed for trial. Stone, who pleaded not guilty to both charges and conducted his own defence, was remanded in custody. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.). BURGLARY Robin Michael Francis Sheedy, aged 22, a labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge that on March 9 he burgled the premises of Antigua Food Store Ltd., at 32 Antigua street. He was remanded in custody tilt March 15. CHARGE WITHDRAWN Maurice Rangi, aged 25, a workman, (Mr M. G. L. Loughnan) pleaded not guilty to a charge that on October 9 he assaulted Ruth Karaitiana. Mrs Rangi said she had formerly been Miss Ruth Karaitiana and had in October laid a complaint against Rangi. She did not now wish to give evidence. The charge was withdrawn.' DRUNK Eiilleen Warwick, aged 62, a domestic, pleaded guilty to being drunk in Latimer Square on March 8. She also admitted three other convictions for a similar offence within the last six months. She was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence Within six months if called on. TRAFFIC OFFENCES In prosecutions brought by the Transport Department convictions were entered and fines

imposed as follows, with costs £1 10s in each case. Exceeding 30 m.p.h.: Wayne Lindsay Sutton, £7 10s, disqualified for one month; Douglas Albert Barnard. £lO (exceeding 45 m.p.h. with a pillion passenger, £3): Thomas John Jones, £4. Owen Lawrence Green, £4; Beverley Wilkes, £3; Derek Castleton Evans. £4: Lindsay Thomas Smith, £4: Walter Cecil Davies, £4; Ivan Ernest Woolley, £6: Kelvin Maurice Watson, £4: Leslie Alan Atkinson, £5: James Scott Brittenden, £4 (failing to stop at a stop sign, £4:); David Joseph Callanan, £4; Eric Walter Donald. £3: Lyal Ross Duck, £4: Leonard Hale Griffin, £4 (no warrant of fitness, £2): Colin Wilfred Gunson, £4; William Thomas Hall, £4; Marcus John Jones, £8; Gerald Lowber ry, £4; Peter Charles Ronald Luisette, £7; Horace Maxwell Mills, £4; Irene Mitchell, £2; Parker Bryant Mudge, £4: Arthur Kenneth Pell, £4 (exceeding 30 m.p.h. without a safety helmet, £3); William James Rollo, £3; lan Stephens, £4; Geoffrey Wells, £5; George Henry Black, £4; Patricia Hilda Carlyon, £4; David Blackwell Crawford, £4: Mary Edith Daly, £4; Leslie Elizabeth Douglas, £4; Maxwell Cottrell Ffitch. £4; Stephen Colin Fisher, £4: Cornelius Fitzgerald, £4; Douglas Walter Foster. £3; John Albert Gordon, £4: Michael Bruce Halliday, £4; Bruce John Halligan. £4: Andrew Francis Hobbs, £3; Gregory Miles Husband, £4, ordered to attend a course of traffic lectures; John Boyd McLaren, £5; William James Maxwell, £4 (no safety chain on trailer, £5); Justin Leo Mora, £4; Kenneth Charles Morrison, £4: Francis Noel Newsome, £5; Rex John Rastrick, £4; Graham Reginald Ryder, £4; Claude Malcolm Sadler, £5: Andrew Fraser Sutherland, £4; Kenneth Thompson, £4; Garry Cedric Watson, £4: Peter John Archer, £4; George Herbert Clemens, £4; Harri Coutte Coblett, £4; Ernest Russell Dance, £4; Lloyd Phillip Gable, £4 (using a motor vehicle without consideration for others, £10: disqualified for three months); Sally Louise Morriis, £5; Rhomven Margaret Thompson, £6; Robert Nain Zino, £4; Robert John Ayson, £3; Mervyn John Crofts, £4; William John Fox, £4; Ross Glynne Gameson, £4; Stuart Cameron Grant, £4; Nina Elsie Matheson, £4; Marley Andrew Patchett, £4; lan Frank Pavitt, £3; John Bradford Dinny, £4; Murray Donald Rans'ley, £4; Colin Edward Rowe, £4; lan Wallace Wilson, £4: David Reginald Allen, £4; Peter Warren Bartley, £4; Maurice Bullmore, £4; Terrence Maxwell Cole, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £1); Garry John Vallance Croft, £7 10s; Alwyn Edwin Drake, £4; Keith De Dulin, £4: Richard Darrell Edkins, £5; Alfred Fischer, £4; Barbara Anne Gain, £4; Frank Groves, £4; Lois Edith Herdman, £7 10s; Alan James Jamieson, £5, ordered to attend traffic lectures; Barry John Johnston, £4; Hugh Douglas McCrostie, £4; Brian Sreenan Milne, £4; Phillip John Monk, £4; Stephen Michael Henry O’Brien, £4; Kevin Bernard O’Brien, £4; Gerald Douglas Peters, £7 lus; Francis Clifford Raven, £5; Brent Kevin Rubb, £4; James Burnie Taylor, £4; Harvey Spencer Thomson, £4; David Charles Wynn-Williams, £4; Frances Mary Wilson, £4; David Wynne, £4; Adolph Steinz, £4. No warrant of fitness: Peter John Clark, £5 (failing to produce his driver’s licence, £2); Peter lan Mclntyre, 2 charges, £8; John, Danielson, £2; Robert Foster, £1; Maurice James Kirk, £3: Graham Edward Pluck, £2; John Thomas Stuart Baird, £2; Bernard John Mora. £3; Brian John Bodger, £1; Eric James Lewis, £5; lan Douglas Bateman, £1: Doreen Francis Box, £3; Peter David Crampton, £3; Desmond James Duggan, £3 (insecure trailer, £5); Albert Bernard Duke, £3; John Jackson, £3; William Ralph McKeegan, £5, disqualified for three months; Tui Tuperangi Maurirere, £3 (unsafe tyres, £5; failing to produce driver’s licence, £1); Pene Whyte, £1 (no driver’s licence, £3). Exceeding 55 m.p.h.: Robert John Nickallis, £5; Colin John Sinclair, £4; Clarence Morgan Davies, £5: John Edward Conroy, £3; Paul Anthony Tutton, £7

10s. ordered to attend a course of three traffic lectures; David Richard Armon, £5 (exceeding 30 m.p.h., £7); Douglas Edmond Drake. £5; Peter Samuel Hulme. £5; Roger Aslan Keys, £5: Kenneth Ivor Lloyd, £5; Roy Beveridge Mclntosh, £5; Christopher Alan Mitchell, £5; Jonathan Arthur Schneideman. £5: Christopher Matheson Stevens, £4; Garth Stuart Hegan, £5 (failing to produce a driver’s licence, £5). Exceeding axle weight: Transport North Canterbury, Ltd.. £5 (registration plate not affixed. £1; no brakes on trailer. £3); Bernie Scott, Ltd., £3 (exceeding heavy traffic licence, £3); P. Graham and Son. Ltd., £3 (exceeding a heavy transport licence, £3). Careless driving: Christopher Vo well, £3; John James Reeves, £7; John Englebert Chapman, £4; Melvyn Robert Dixon, £l2, disqualified for one year (wrong class of driver’s licence, £3). Passing on no passing lines: Olive Rita Whitam, £lO, disqualified for one month: Richard Knight. £lO, disqualified for three months. Unregistered motor-vehicle: Merven Prebble. £3: Harold Vivian Marriott, £5 (no warrant of fitness, £3). Wrong class of driver’s licence: David Alan Gage, £5; Anthony Whyte, £3. Carrying a pillion passenger without a safety helmet in excess of 30 m.p.h.: Gerald Douglas Philp, £2; William Ray Hopping, £5, ordered to attend a course of three traffic lectures, disqualified for three months (exceeding 45 m.p.h. with a pillion passenger, £2). Exceeding 30 m.p.h. without a safety helmet: Mervyn Fairbrother, £3. Failing to keep to the left: Iris Adeline Rickerby, £l5, disqualified for three months: Bruce Henry Everest, £l2, disqualified for three months; James Regill Joseph Bailey, £5: Damiel Michael Foley, £lO, disqualified for three months. Permitting an unlicensed driver: John Walker CoWins, £3. Permitting the use of an unlicensed motor vehicle: Timothy Wilkie, £5; William Joker. £3. No foot-rests on a motorcycle: John David Crook, £l. Failing to carry a heavy traffic licence: Samuel Leslie Dodge, £3 (failing to display the name of nearest Post Office, £2); Edward O’SuHlivan, £5 (no certificate of fitness, £10). Exceeding 40 miilles an hour in a heavy motor-vehicle: Lester William King, £4; Raymond John Luscombe, £5. Falling to produce driver’s licence: Tuhii Chriisitde, £5: lan Hamilton Robertson, £1; Kevin Leslie Smart, £1: Ronald Mason, £1; Norman Albert Lawrence, £1; Terrence Edward O’Brien, £1 (faiiillng to keep to the left when turning, £6). Driving without reasonable consideration: Barry Arthur Houston, £5; Brian Athol Jones, £3; Donald Sydney Rutledge, £4; Dennis Laurence White, £lO. No certificate of fitness for a heavy motor-vehicle: Canterbury Tractor Co., £5; Joseph Arthur Briscoe, £5; D. J. O’Donovan, and Sons, Ltd., £5 (exceeding a heavy traffic licence, £3). Driving at a speed which might have been dangerous: Barbara Joan Ash, £l2, disqualified for one year. Insecure trailer: George Bernard Batters by, £5; Selwyn Thomson, £5; David Leslie Waters, £5. Noisy motor-vehicle; Andrew Ernest Hurst, £5. Failing to stop at a stop sign: Noel Ernest Lang, £8; Neville Maitland House, £10; Kevin Charles John Murphy, £8; Peter Henry Woodward, £10; Brian Douglas Barton, £3. No driver’s licence: June Campbell, £3. Exceeding a temporary speed limit: Nola Dorothy Cleveland, £4; Allan Milne, £3. Exceeding 40 miles an hour with trailer: John Gibson, £4; Allan Joseph OU-liiver, £4. Obstructing a vehicle entrance: Irene Mary Stead, £3. Crossing against traffic lights: Hayden Robert MacDonaild, £lO, disqualified for three months. Exceeding heavy traffic licence: Rodney Herbert Hamilton, £3.

Insufficient lights: Dupree Thomas Opwood, £5.