THEFT OF WOOL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 81, 22 April 1937, Page 5

THEFT OF WOOL

Telegraph— PrcsB Assooiation.)

Uncle and Nephew Plead Guilty VICTIM A WIDOW

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AUCKLAND, Last Night. A plea of guilty to a charge of stealing two bales of wool valued at £15 at Te Miro, near Cambridge, on December 5, was enterejd by Keith Terence Gemmel, aged 21 years, in the Polxce Court to-day. The police said. that Gemmell and an uncle- named Capner started from Auckland selling potatoes from a motor truck. At Cambridge they asked a widow to sell them two bales of wool from her farm, but she would not sell. On the way back from Eotorua. to Auckland, Gemmell said, his upcle entered the widow 's wool-shed and stole the wool. • The accusefi sold it to an Auckland firm for £11 and handed the money to his uncle who gave him £3. Gemmell served a term in a Borstal institution for participating in the Auckland riots some years ago. Mr. W. B. McKean, S.M., remarked that although Gemmell was under the doiuination of a hardened criminal he had sold wool under another name. The accused was admitted to probation for two years and ordered to make rastitution.