BROKEN SHOP WINDOW

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 11

BROKEN SHOP WINDOW

COOK TO PAY FOR DAMAGE

Althbugli lie maintained that" he did not break a. shop window in Taranaki street '. last night,. /Albert Tihomas Wood, a cooky aged; 43, when charged with the, offence iv. the Magistrate's Court this morning, said, that.if it was held ho'did the damage ho was willing; to pay ,for it. Wood pleaded, not guilty, but after hearing • the : police evidence arid that of the defendant, the Magistrate (Mr.' E.. Page)' said he thought the circumstances were too strong against Wood, who would, have to be convicted. He was convicted.and was ordered to make good the damage, £10 165,, in default one month's, imprisonment. " . ..,'.'-.• Miss I. Bussell,.daughter of the" shopkeeper, said that she heard something strike the window, and: on going downstairs she found, it had been broken. There was a large stone outside, the shop, and'the accused was present. When questioned, Wood'only mumbled something and crossed the street. -.Shel then got in touch with the police and Wood was arrested.: . . . . . "I heard a scream just, as -I was going by the shop," said the accused from the dock. . : , "But I didn't scream," said Misi Eussell. : . ' . ■•';.....,' ~ Wood: "Well, I heard..'something: scream." .. / '. .' .' :..,.'.. .. Constable• A. S. Ward. «aid. ; tjnat when he arrived, at the..shop, Vood: was the only, man within chains of the place. ■■■.•' Constable Le Fort said that Wood denied having broken the window, but he was quite willing to pay. for the damage. The Magistrate asked Wood how "ki t thought the window gat broken. "I don't know," said Wood, **)mf I didn't do it*" . .... ./ After the Magistrate-had decided td convict Wood. Senior-sergeant - Warn said that the accused was-;before, tha Court in 1926, when ho was sentenced to 14 day's imprisonment fo* being idle and disorderly.1 .'■"'■"■ Wood said he could pay the £10 16s by Monday. ;