MAGISTRATE’S COURT Stole Wallet From Sleeping Man’s Trousers

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31119, 23 July 1966, Page 16

MAGISTRATE’S COURT Stole Wallet From Sleeping Man’s Trousers

The accused had a shocking list of 43 convictions. Sergeant V. F. Townshend, told Mr H. J. Evans, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday when Charles Henry Alexander Ferris, aged 35, unemployed. appeared on a charge of theft of a wallet containing £27 10s on July 21. Ferris, who pleaded guilty, was convicted and remanded in custody to July 28 for a report and sentence. Sergeant Townshend said that at 10.30 p.m. on the night of the offence, the accused was a passenger on the interisland steamer Maori. He entered a cabin where the occupant was asleep and took a wallet from a pair of trousers that were hanging on the end of the top bunk. The complainant awoke, and Ferris told him that he had mistaken the cabin. Ferris then went to his own cabin where he removed the money from the wallet. When the Maori arrived at Lyttelton, Ferris was pointed out to the police by the complainant Ferris at first denied committing the offence, but later admitted taking the wallet. LOOKED THROUGH WINDOW Charged with peering by night through the window of a house at 25 Office road on July 21, Patrick Kahu, aged 23. a workman, was convicted and fined £l2. He pleaded guilty. MANNER DANGEROUS A fine of £5, with disqualification from driving for 12 months, was imposed on Patrick James Burgess, aged 26, a farm worker, when he was convicted on a charge of Having on the Main West road Lear Darfield on June 5 in a manner which was or might have been dangerous. He was also ordered to pay court costs on a charge of not having a current warrant of fitness on the same date. He pleaded guilty to both charges. Sergeant Townshend said that at 4.45 p.m. on June 5, Burgess was driving towards

' Christchurch on the Main (West road. Another car that was following the defendant tried to pass him about eight times, but on each occasion, , Burgess swerved out in front 1 of him, preventing the manoeuvre. Burgess later admitted doing this about three times. He said that he had been annoyed because the other car was following too close to him. Burgess told the Magistrate that the other car had been almost touching his own car. He only pulled out to stop it overtaking him a few times. The Magistrate said that the case was rather an extraordinary one. DISMISSED Graeme Frederick Barnard, aged 18, a storeman (Mr C. B. Atkinson) pleaded not guilty to a charge that on February 18 on Blenheim road he used a motor vehicle carelessly. The charge was dismissed. OTHER TRAFFIC CHARGES In other traffic prosecutions brought by the police convictions were entered and fines imposed as follows with Court cost of £1 10s on each charge. Failed to give way: Ethel Pattie Parkes. £8; Theodorus Martines Glesbers, £4; David Malcolm Goulding. £6; Leith Margaret Cocks. £4 10s; Josef Jungwirth, £l2; David Albert Neave, £5 10s; Dennis William Stead. £7, licence cancelled for one month: Evan Alexander Baxter. £8; Alfred James Frederick Briggs, £8; Judith Mary Cameron, £6 10s: Mary Conchita Mead, £5: Stephen Patrick Murphy. £5 (no driver's licence, £6. disqualified for two months): Maurice John Robinson. £5 10s: Noe-Mne Eva Williams, £5. disqualified for one month: William Douglas Sheehan, costs only. No warrant of fitness: Ernest William Smith. 10s. Interfered with rental car speedometer: Garry Kenneth Wicks. £l2. Proceeded from compulsory stop before way was clear: Brian Kevin Neeson. £6 10s (no warrant of fitness, costs only) Careless use: Barry Cleave Gilbert. £7. licence canceled for one month: Edward Worth‘neton. £4; Bevan Wayne Clarke. £l2 (Before Mr K H. J. Headifen, S.M ) FINED £4 Keith Miekle France, aged 50. a medical practitioner (Mr J. G. , Leggat) was convicted and fined

£4 on a charge that he failed to yield the right of way at the intersection of Church and Main South roads. Templeton, on May 17. He pleaded not guilty. FAILED TO GIVE WAY Leonard Arthur McEntee aged 48, a plasterer (Mr S. G. Erber) was convicted and fined £4 on a charge that he failed to yield the right of way at the intersection of Mcßratneys and Gayhurst roads about 6.40 p.m. on February 5. He pleaded not guilty. NO NAME USED Paul Francis Sugrue, aged 25, a driver (Mr A. Hearn) pleaded not guilty to charges that he failed to stop after being involved in an accident in Craven street on March 4, that he failed to ascertain whether any person had been injured, and that he drove a motor vehicle carelessly. All the charges were dismissed. In dismissing the charges the Magistrate said the defendant had not been referred to by name at any stage of the presecution's case. I am not expected to fill in the gaps for the prosecution.” he said. FINED £8 Lyndsay Norman Thomson, aged 21, an apprentice plumber (Mr M. J. Glue) was convicted. fined £8 and disqualified from driving for three months on a charge that he failed to stop for a red traffic light at the intersection of Papanui road and Bealey avenue about 10.55 p.m. on May 12. He pleaded guilty. A charge that Thomson drove a motor vehicle carelessly on Marshland road about 6.20 p.m. on April 23 was dismissed. He pleaded not guilty. (Before Mr E. A. Lee, S.M.) DECISION RESERVED -The Magistrate reserved his decision on charges brought against Bruce Sydney Findlayson, aged 33, a horse trainer, and David Johnson McKinley, aged 34, a freezing worker (Mr L. M. O’Reilly for both) that they attempted to steal a lamb carcase valued at £1 10s from the Islington Freezing Works on March 3. Earlier each of the men pleaded not guilty to the charge. EXCEEDED AXLE WEIGHT The Ashley Timber Company, Ltd. (Mr H. J. B. Quigley) pleaded not guilty to a charge that on the Picton-Bluff High, way at Chaneys corner on March 3 they exceeded the statutory axle limit on a vehicle. The company was convicted and ordered to pay costs of £1 10s. CHARGE DISMISSED Murray Gordon Godfrey, aged 18, a locomotive assista’nt (Mr A. K. Archer) pleaded not guilty to a charge that on Mav 8 in Manchester street he used a motor car carelessly. The charge was dismissed.