MAGISTRATE'S COURT
Cases at the Magistrate's -Court were dealt with to-day by Mr. T. B. McNeil, O.jVT.
"I will-give you an opportunity, but you must understand that because you are a' relief worker it is no excuse for you stealing other people's goods," said Mr. McNeil when admitting Frederick Alfred Reeve to probation for twelve months on a charge of stealing a pair of boots Valued at £2 10s, the property of Vere E. Tindale. The evidence showed that the accused was assisting in" the removal jOf some furniture from a house on 26th' August, and on the following day a pair of boots was missed. Detective McPhee'discovered the missing boots in a pawnshop, and established that Eeeve was the man who had sold them. Detective-Sergeant Revell said that the accused, who was on relief work, was living with his wife and child. The family, he said,-was in very poor circumstances.
Robert James Reid, a labourer, aged 3S, was convicted on a charge of being found unlawfully in the grounds of the Mount Cook Infant School, and ordered to come up for sentence within twelve months if called, upon. The accused was found at night helping a friend to climb over a fence into the Salvation Army ' Home, where he was living.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 15
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212MAGISTRATE'S COURT Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 15
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