GAMBLING MANIA.
A YOUTH BECOMES A CRIMINAL
[(Per. Press Association.), Christchurch, last night. Solomoo S.loan, on remand, was charged with having fraudulently misappropriated several sums of money the property of the Widows’ Fund Life Assurance Society. The police withdrew the first charge, in respect to a sum of <239 18s 4d, and the accused pleaded guilty to four charges in respect to sums totalling about £2O. Counsel for accused, in asking that [ Sloan be admitted to probation, stated j that ho was little more than a lad, and the son of highly respectable people. Ho had been earning £6O a year, which had recently boon increased to £BO. He had got into bad company and had been gambling, with the usual result, that he had been tempted to retain moneys, and had succumbed to the temptation. Accused was remanded till Saturday, to enable the probation officer to report.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1435, 20 April 1905, Page 2
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