PAINTER CHARGED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Issue 2, 8 July 1940, Page 4

PAINTER CHARGED

THEFT OF SUIT-AND WAIAF.T , t " ; IMPRISONMENT SENTENCE;' Elebtmg to lie - dealt v with summarily and'; pleading guilty to a charge of stealing a suit and wallet, of a total value of £10 10s, t]?e property 'of Harold Pickles, Thomas Percy jnmmins, a painter, was sen.tenped to two weeks', imprisonment by Messrs W!; Sulliyai and G. A. Justices' the: Peace, in the Police Court on Friday .morning. Detailing the facts, Slergeant M. Farrell said that accused had been * employed in Whakatane for the past fortnight and had been working well until last Friday, when he commenced drinking. ;He was staying at a boardinghouse, where he- shared a room with Mr Pickles. He had taken the articles referred to while Mr Pickles was out.-Both the suit and the wallet had since been recovered. Timmins, said the Sergeant, had a big, list and practically every offence 'hadr' ; befett'«-fcopamitted after drihlcirig . ' v His " employer 1 was ; parried to;'give h£m / a chance on contract at a military camp in the King Country. However, accused-was still suffering"from the-: effects, of liquor and it would be advisable to give him time to get over it with a short, sharp sentence. The Sergeant added that he had known accused twenty years or so and he had always been the same. "Its a serious offence," said the Bench. "It. is not ,as though it had 4niy happened once, has a long record. If accused is prepared ' to go to the job in the King Country we are of the opinion that fourteen days imprisonment will give him time to get over the effects of the liquor."