MAGISTRATE'S COURT Burglar Imprisoned For Six Months

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31097, 28 June 1966, Page 14

MAGISTRATE'S COURT Burglar Imprisoned For Six Months

Charlie King!, jun„ aged 29. a workman, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge that on June IS he broke and entered a house at 196 Antigua street with intent to commit a crime.

The Magistrate told Kingi that sooner or later he would get a long term of imprisonment. King! already had served imprisonment after being convicted of dishonesty, theft, robbery, burglary, and unlawfully getting into a motor-car. “Nothing is more certain that if you carry on as you have in the past you will be sentenced to preventive detention,” he said. BURGLAR SENTENCED When John Stuart Dudfield, aged 18, a car cleaner, and Richard Thomas Foreman, aged 20, a packer (Mr S. G. Erber for both), appeared for sentence on a joint charge that on June 18 they broke and entered the premises of Auto Parts, Ltd., Tuam street, with intent to commit a crime, Dudfield was stood down till today to allow a medical report to be obtained on his suitability for a detention centre, and Foreman was fined £3O and placed on probation for one year with the special conditions that he neither owns nor drives a car and that he pays the fine at not less than £3 a week.

The Magistrate told Dudfield that he was a drifting from job to job and in his social habits. “Some discipline is badly needed,” he said.

The Magistrate toid Foreman that he was in desperate trouble. He had previous convictions for burglary, theft, and interfering with a vehicle, as well as other convictions. Foreman was not suitable for a detention centre and was too old for Borstal. However, there was a hope that if Foreman was left at large he would have learned something from his recent experience.

(Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.)

FINED £5O Donald Ross McGregor, aged 38, a glazier (Mr A. P. C. Tipping), was convicted and fined £5O and disqualified from driving for three years ion a charge of driving under the influence of drink or drugs in Cathedral square on June 18. He pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant D. Porteous said that McGregor was driving his car in Cathedral square about 6.30 p.m. when he knocked down two young women who were crossing from the central garden plot towards the post office. One woman was injured seriously enough to be admitted to hospital, and the other was treated at the hospital and sent home.

McGregor smelt strongly of Tiquor and staggered about the Square. “Had it not been for your

domestic position you certainly would have been sent to prison." the Magistrate said to McGregor. FINED £l5 John Burley Stanrin. aged 34, a warehouseman (Mr P. C. Champion!, was convicted and fined £l5 on a charge of being found in an enclosed garden without lawful excuse at 52 CaleIdonian road about 7.55 p.m. on I April 22. He pleaded guilty. Mr Champion asked for the suppression of his client s name on the grounds that he was a regular church attender and he held a highly respected position as a member of the Masonic Lodge. The Magistrate refused an order for suppression. THREE YEARS’ I>IS QUALIFICATION Henry Dynes Woods, aged 65. a railway workman, was convicted. fined £4O and was disqualified from driving for three years on a charge of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of drink or drugs, in Bealey avenue on June 26. He pleaded guilty. ASSAULT DENIED A charge of assaulting Theo Schaapmeeders on May 7 against Diane Elizabeth Bradshaw, aged 18. a kitchenmaid (Mr A. K. Archer), was dismissed under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act. She pleaded not guilty. The Magistrate said Bradshaw did not take part in actual violence against the complainant although wheh she seized him an assault took place. FINED £lO James Edward McMahon, aged 50, a painter (Mr K. M. Hampton). was fined £lO when he appeared for sentence on a charge that on June 17 he stole from Woolworths New Brighton goods valued at 15s 3d. FINED £6 Herbert Thomas Lawrence, aged 57, a car attendant (Mr L M. O’Reilly), pleaded not guilty to a charge that on March 22 he proceeded from a stop sign at the intersection of Colombo and Wordsworth streets before the way was clear. He was con victed and fined £6. NO EVIDENCE OFFERED Charges against William Hodge, aged 43. a building contractor that on January 22 he resisted the police and wilfully trespassed were dismissed for want of prosecution after Sergeant V. F. Townshend had said the police would offer no evidence. CHARGES DISMISSED Wayne Malcolm Andrews, aged 17. an apprentice boilermaker (Mr G. R. Lascelles), pleaded not guilty to charges that on March 18, at the intersection of New Brighton and Barkers roads, he failed to stop after an accident and he failed to ascertain whether any person had been injured in the accident. He pleaded guilty to a charge of having no warrant of fitness. The Magistrate dismissed the charges to which Andrews had pleaded not guilty after he had heard evidence for both the prosecution and defence. On the charge of having no warrant Andrews was convicted and fined £3. SENTENCE DEFERRED Maurice James Ward, aged 33. a salesman (Mr G. R. Lascelles), appeared for sentence on a charge that on June 3 while a servant in the employ of East rnonds Shoe Store, Ltd., he stole £2O. The Magistrate deferred passing sentence and remanded Ward in custody for sentence to allow a mental health report on Ward to be obtained.

OBSCENE LANGUAGE Leonard Sydney Bloxham. aged 47, a gardener (Mr M. G. L. Loughnan), was fined £6 when he appeared tor sentence on a charge that on June 19 in Stanmore road he used obscene language. FINED £2O Ronald Charles Quarterrnan, aged 31, a rubber worker (Mr M. J. Glue), pleaded not guilty to a charge that on April 24 at the Woolston Hotel he unlaw, fully took a bicycle. He was convicted and fined £2O.

drunkenness Peter Moon McLean, aged 55, ~ factory workman (Mr K M. 1 Hampton), pleaded guilty to a charge that on June 24 he was I found drunk at the Christchurch I Hospital. He admitted three l previous convictions within the i last six months. He was con victed and remanded on bail for : sentence. LIQUOR OFFENCES Minor purchased liquor: Gregory Colin Blair. £3: Thomas Nelson Tamatea, £2; Michael John iTe Aho. £5. Minor in possession of liquor lln a public place: Patrick Glen Guthrie. £5; Warwick Webster, £j i.eft glass In a public place: Warren Keith McNeish. £lO. I Procured liquor after hours: peter Allan Kibblewhite. £1 10s Minor found in a bar: Brian Sidney Johns. £5. (Before Mr H. J. Evans, S.M ) OBSCENE LANGUAGE Basil John O SuUivan. aged 27. an office supervisor (Mr P. G. S. Penlington). was convicted and fined £lO on a charge of using obscene language at the Lyttelton Railway Station about 6.1.5 p in. on June 18. He pleaded not guilty. A charge that 0 SuMlvan re skied arrest, resulting from the earlier offence, was dismissed He pleaded not guilty. O'Sullivan said he was help Ing a friend, who was being de tained on the Lyttelton railway station platform for an offence, when Constable D. Wright had grasped him by the lapel* of his coat and pushed him up against a carriage. The defend ant admitted that ho had used obscene language.