STOLE FOR YOUNG MAN

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1930, Page 5

STOLE FOR YOUNG MAN

STORY REVEALED IN COURT. .By Telegraph—Per Presi Association.) WELLINGTON, September 12. The story of a young girl who had given small sums of money to assist a man who had been dismissed from his employment because of laziness, and who eventually stole a gold wristlet watch and gave it to him to pawn, was told in the Police Court, to-day. The man, Joseph Mallis, alias Hicks, a labourer, aged twenty-one, was sentenced to four months’' imprisonment on a charge of being, a rogue and a vagabond in that lie had insufficient lawful means of support. The girl, whose name was suppressed, was admitted to probation for two years. Sub-Inspector Lopdell said that Mallis was of the larrikin type and had created disturbances at dances. He had not been working for some time. A girl with whom lie was acquainted had given him various sums of money from time to time and eventually she stole a watch and gave it to him to pawn with permission to keep the money. Sub-Inspector Ward said that the accused girl was nineteen years of age. Both she and her parents were of good character. She was employed as a typiste. In July last she was n member of a hockey team at Karori Park, and while there she stole the -Watch from the clothes of another girl in the dressing shed.