POLICE COURT

Evening Star, Issue 23688, 23 September 1940, Page 7

POLICE COURT

MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. (Before Mr H. W. Bundle, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. A first offender was fined 2s 6d (the amount of cab fare), in default 24 hours’ imprisonment. DRUNK IN CHARGE. Stating that after he had visited a hotel “ everything was a complete blank,” Cedric William Kay (42) pleaded guilty to being drunk while in charge of a horse and cart in Albany street, and was fined £2 2s 6d. Sergeant Johnson said that the defendant had been asked by the owner to drive a horse and gig, but while engaged in that duty he had visited two hotels and become intoxicated. He was noticed by two constables to have lost control of the horse and was arrested. The Magistrate remarked that defendant was very fortunate that iie had been caught before be had reached the hill. He would be fined £2 2s 6d, which included 2s 6d cab hire. BETWEEN FRIENDS. Admitting that be had struck another man with whom he had been drinking, “ just to knock some sense into him,” Albert John M‘Gee Guyton (19) was charged with having assaulted Jack. Fenton. Mr O. G. Stevens appeared on behalf of the accused, who was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence, if called upon within 12 months. Sergeant Johnson said that the affair occurred in Moray Place on Saturday evening. Fenton was very drunk and was being held by a companion, and the accused had admitted striking him to keep him quiet. The accused, a single man, was on probation from the Borstal institution. Mr Stevens said that the two men concerned were friends, and, so counsel understood) roomed together. On this occasion they had been drinking together, and Fenton had had too much liquor and became difficult to deal with. Guyton became exasperated and struck him in the face, hoping it would knock a hit of sense into him. Counsel added that Guyton had now enlisted and been passed fit. The probation officer (Mr E. H. Mosley), in answer to the bench, said that whenever there was anything in the nature of a “ mix-up ” where he could use his hands Guyton was likely to be in close attendance. Mr Stevens: When he gets into camp he will bo put in his place in that regard. When the man Fenton was questioned by Mr Stevens he amended what he had previously told counsel concerning his association with accused. Guyton and he had not actually roomed together in the ordinary sense, he said; they had merely slept in the same cell since their arrest. _ • Accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months, a condition beinw that ho paid £1 Is medical expenses within 14 days. MAINTENANCE. Eric Wharton Braithwaite, charged with having defaulted in his payments on a maintenance order, did not appear and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, the warrant not to be issued so long as defendant paid £3 on or before October 2, and £2 10s each subsequent fortnight until 'the arrears (£55 l-ss) were discharged.