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BRICKLAYERS CLEARED OF
ILLEGAL USE CHARGES
Charges against two bricklayers of having
illegally used a car owned by Henry Thomas
Armstrong, of Ainslie, in Commonwealth
Avenue, on September 19, were dismissed by
Mr. F. C. P. Keane, S.M., in the Canberra
Court yesterday.
Henry Bruce Armstrong, 31,
bricklayer of Herbert Crescent,
Ainslie, and Alfred Samuel Bray
32 bricklayer, of Baker Gardens,
Ainelie, pleaded not guility to the
charge, and conducted their own
defence.
Henry Thomas Armstrong,
drainer, of Cowper Street, Ains-
lie, said he left his car in the
driveway of his home on Septem-
ber 19. During the afternoon he
found the car had been taken
away and he informed the police.
He did not give the defendants
or anyone else authority to take
the car.
Sergeant H. F. Luton said the
police stopped Henry Thomas
Armstrongs car in London Circi it
Bray was driving it and Henry
Bruce Armstrong was in the back
seat.
Henry Bruce Armstrong said
his mother asked Bray to drive
the car to Hotel Canberra. His
mother and a friend of his mother
accompanied Bray and him to the
hotel.
Bray told the magistrate Mrs.
Armstrong had asked him to
drive the car. He was under the
impression it was a family car
and though Mrs. Armstrong had
authority to use it.
Mrs. Katherine Armstrong said
she asked Bray to drive her to
the Hotel Canberra. On previous
occasions her husband had given
her permission to use the car.
She had not asked him on Sep-
tember 19 because he had not re-
turned home before the car was
taken.
The magistrate said he was
satisfied with Bray's explanation
and as there was a reasonable
doubt in the case of Armstrong
he would dismiss both charges.
On a charge of speeding in
Commonwealth Avenue on Sep-
tember 19 Bray fined £4/10/-.
He pleaded guilty. The police
said he was driving at 52 mi es
an hour.
CHARGES ADJOURNED
Leslie John Teese, 38, journal-
ist, of Forrest and Norman Fred-
erick Wilson 27, butcher, of Brad-
don, were remanded by consent
nutil October 12.
Teese was charged with driv-
ing while under the influence in
the grounds of Telopea Park
School on September 19.
Wilson was charged with d iv-
ing under the influence in Lister
Crescent Ainslie, on September
26.
Both men were released with-
out bail on giving an understand-
ing to appear at the court on
October 12.
BAIL FORFEITED
After he failed t to answer a
charge of using indecent langu-
age in the saloon bar of the Hotel
Civic on September 24, Leonard
Michael Mullian 27, labourer, of
Turner forfeited bail of £2.
Patrick James Higgins 54, gar_
dener, of Ainslie, forfeited bail of
£1 when he failed to answer a
charge of being drunk and dis-
orderly in Torrens Street on Sat-
urday afternoon.
Seven men forfeited bail rang-
ing from 8/- to £1 when they
failed to answer charges of drun-
keness. They were Charles Gum-
ley, builder of Kingston; Freder-
ick Raymond Hammond, labourer
of Ainslie; Charles Rogan, lab-
ourer of Capital Hill hostel; Li-
onel Murphy, clerk of Ainslie;
Romano Morson. carpenter of
Capital Hill hostel; Alexander
Nugent, painter of Hillside hostel;
and Hippolit Mateczyna, labourer of O'Connor.
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