1965 - 60 years ago - September - Part 1

 

1965 - 60 years ago - September - Part 1

1.—Verdict of death from injuries received recorded at inquest of Mrs. A. M. Morrison (better known as Joan Kennedy, the authoress), who was a passenger in the car which crashed into the rock bank on the bend of Mont de la Pulente, St. Brelade, on Monday, August 23.

2.—Despite wintry conditions over 130 horses and ponies take part in members' day horse show and gymkhana organized by the local branch of the British Show Jumping Association at St. Mary's.—Another vessel badly holed at Bouley Bay, this being the 21 ft. clinker-built sailing boat Aurova.—Verdict of suicide returned at inquest on 31-year-old Mr. Rodney Boyce Brown, found gassed in the fiat he occupied in St. Saviour's Road.

3.—A man, 22-year-old Alan Colin Nichols, who kicked Police Sergeant H. W. Gould in the head and fractured his skull at a party at Jardin des Carneaux, Queen's Road, on June 5, was jailed for 12 months' by the Royal Court today.—It was announced today that Anthony Oliver Lynch, the 27-year-old Dublin man sentenced to death at the Royal Court on August 10 for the murder of Madelaine Mabel Fox, had been reprieved the sentence having been commuted to life imprisonment.

5.—A memorial to the late Dean Le Marinel in the form of a "treasury" in the south transept of St. Helier's Parish Church to display the church plate unveiled by the Bailiff at morning service.—During a 50-minute period early this morning nearly an inch of rain was recorded at the Airport and a number of cases of flooding in the west of the Island were reported.

6.—Assizes : Charges of stealing copper piping worth over £700 from a shed on the Quennevais Housing Estate building site were among several brought against two Londoners, David Cyril Evans (26) and Ronald Sydney Harris (27) at their trial today ; the hearing was adjourned.

7.—Assizes : David Cyril Evans was jailed for two years for stealing two miles of copper piping from a shed at Les Quennevais building site ; Ronald Sydney Harris was acquitted of receiving and was discharged.

8.—A three-month prison sentence imposed at the Police Court on 28-year-old Dudley Howard Smith, of West Bromwich for being destitute was reduced on appeal to one month by the Royal Court today.—At an electoral assembly, Centenier G. R. Le Masurier, of St. Martin, was re-elected unopposed for a further term.—Verdict of accidental death recorded at inquest on the body of a 23-year-old holidaymaker, Mr. Albert Ernest George Hammond, whose body was found on a concrete ledge at the foot of the 20 ft. high sea-wall near The Watersplash, St. Ouen's Bay, last Sunday morning.

10.—A sentence of six months' imprisonment imposed on 32-year-old Peter Donald Ryan at the Royal Court for what was described as a vicious and brutal assault on a Probation Officer.—A 58-year-old man, Herbert Angelo Voluntario, a native of Bournemouth, put on probation for three years by the Royal Court for indecently assaulting two boys.— Fines totalling £350 with 30 guineas costs imposed on a husband and wife by the Royal Court for infractions of the Housing and Tourism Laws ; in another similar case involving four infractions of the Tourism Law a husband and wife were fined £150 with 20 guineas costs

 11.—After nearly 48 hours of intensive search throughout the Island no confirmed reports had been received of the whereabouts of 11-year-old Joy Elizabeth Norton, missing from her home in the Bel Royal area since 2.30 p.m. on Thursday.

13.—The search for the missing 11-year-old girl, Joy Elizabeth Norton, was called off early yesterday morning, some fifty hours after it started, when her body was found dumped in a field at St. Lawrence; she had been sexually assaulted and her fully-clothed body had been stabbed many times; Scotland Yard officers have been called in.—Battle of Britain Week opens with the ceremony of a " Mile of Pennies," in the Royal Square.

14.—Just over 200 items of antique silver and plate fetched prices totalling £19,605 in the first of Messrs. Langlois's autumn sales today ; this is said to be the highest amount ever obtained in the Island from the proceeds of one sale.—The intensive search for the killer of Joy Norton continues, with the arrival of a team of murder experts from Hampshire.

16.—A low cloud base, which limited aerobatics, causes delay and disappointment for the thousands of spectators who gathered along the sea-wall from the Harbour to Bel Royal to watch the Battle of Britain air display given by the famous Red Arrows team and other aircraft.

17.—A sentence of two years' probation passed on a 16-year-old girl at the Police Court was squashed by the Royal Court today ; also before the Royal Court was Alan Adams, who was sentenced to 12 month' imprisonment for breaches of the peace, assault and threatening the police.—A safe containing between £500 and £700 stolen from the Wood-lands Hotel, Grouville, during the early hours of this morning.—Convicted of helping to steal 13 diamond rings from a St. Helier jewellers Patricia Mary Sexton was sentenced to four months' imprisonment by the Royal Court ; her husband, John Lawrence Sexton (25), also received four months, while London-born Alfred Walker (26) was sentenced to 12 months.—The Island's first experimental parking meter site at Snow Hill was in operation today.