A YOUTH’S LAPSE
PUBLICITY PART OF THE PUNISHMENT Dominion Special. Palmerston North, November 15. "You are little more than a boy, and in the circumstances I will enter a conviction without any punishment,” said Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day in addressing Clifton John Towler (aged 17), who had pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing at Palmerston North on November 5 the sum of £'J, the property of James Tutanekai. Senior-Detective Quirke stated that accused had committed the theft from the house of his brother-in-law, to whom the money belonged. Restitution had since been made. Nothing else was known against Towler’s character. He was in work at the present time. It was suggested that accused’s appearance before the Court would in itself be a sufficient lesson. In entering a conviction, the Magistrate warned accused that a second appearance would be a serious matter for him. Towler asked that his name be suppressed. Mr. Salmon: No, I don’t, think so. That in itself is part of the punishment.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19261116.2.20
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
172A YOUTH’S LAPSE Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 44, 16 November 1926, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in