MAGISTRATES’ COURT

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 284, 29 August 1942, Page 3

MAGISTRATES’ COURT

Wellington Cases

Cases' dealt with by Mr. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, included the following. Merle Browne, a waitress, was fined £2 and costs for a breach of. tne Censorship and Publicity Regulations, 1039, committed by the inclusion of information about troops in a letter to her father in the Chatham Islands. For failing to notify changes of address to the Director of National Service, Basil John Gristow, a boilermaker, was fined £5 and costs. For failure to enrol for military, service, William Fergus, labourer, and IVII- - Wilson, bootmaker, were each sen; leaved to 14 days’ bard labour. Wilson was convicted and discharged on a second charge, that of deceiving the Director of National Service. The police evidence on this charge was that defendant, when ho did register after being interviewed, represented himself as married m order to shield, he said, the woman with whom he was living. 'They were later married. For being in possession of liquor ui the vicinity of a dance hall in I’arnparaumu. llenii Tipu, Rang! Johnson. Slephcn Thomas Coffey, and Charles John Foley were each fined £3 and costs. On a similar charge Alexander Summers Moflitt was lined £3 and costs, and on two additional charges of supplying liquor to two natives within an area prohibited under the Licensing Amendment Act. 1910. he was fined £•"> and costs on the first and convicted and discharged on the second. Clifford Douglas Rohloff, milk lorry driver, was lined £5 and costs for obstructing a street warden acting in exercise of powers under the Emergency Regulations. 1940, Section 18. 'Pile evidence was that defendant had refused to obey the direction of the warden to lake shelter when walking in Adelaide Rond during lhe period of an E.I’.S. trial, lie had also ignored the requests of a second warden. For using obscene language he was lined an additional £2 and costs. Albert Edward Roberts appeared to answer two charges relating to the supply of intoxicating liquor to a member of the armed forces for consumption off licensed premises. Defendant admitted the offence, hut stated that he had been carried away by a wish to be hospitable to visiting servicemen. He was fined £5 and costs on each charge.

For removing intoxicating liquor from licensed premises at. a time the premises wore required by law to bo closed. William 'l'yack. a barman in a city hotel, was fined C 5 and eosls.

For failing Io enrol for military service, Redvers Dtindonald Thomson was lined £5 and costs.

For taking native game out of season. Denis Kelleher, blacksmith, was lined £3/10/- anti eosls.

A young American soldier shot ami seriously wounded Miss Lilian Gwendolyn Lloyd, aged 33, an usherette, at the Lyceum Theatre, Brisbane, on the night of August IS. ami then committed suicide. Earlier, the soldier had threatened by telephone to kill Miss Lloyd and her boy friend. The shooting occurred about 10.30 p.m.. in the staff dressingroom at the theatre. 'l’he soldier had evaded two military police placed at the entrance of the theatre to detain him. Miss Lloyd was wounded in the abdomen and thigh. After he had shot her with liis .45 calibre revolver the soldier shot himself through the head. He died in hospital two hours later.