POLICE COURT.
ALLEGED BREAKING AND ENTERING. At the Police Court this morning, before Messrs F. E. Flatt and W. Marshall, J’s.P., Bill Brunell, of Station Road, Paeroa, was charged with breaking, entering, and theft at Waitoki on or about March 12. Constable McClinchy asked that the charge be reduced to common theft. Brunell pleaded guilty, and in a written statement admitted stealing a kit. razor, razor stone,, tobacco, cartridges, and an overcoat. The constable said that thieving was becoming very prevalent, and asked the Justices to use their influence to have the practices put down. Brunei] had previously been in an industrial school, but during the past 18 months or two years he had been in Paeroa and no charge had been made against him. He had reduced the charge to common theft, but asked that the full penalty for that offence be imposed. The Bench was inclined to give the boy a last chance, and imposed a sentence of one month’s imprisonment or a fine of £5. To avoid sending him to prison, where a career of crime may commence in earnest, he would be allowed 14 days in which to find the money.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4552, 18 April 1923, Page 2
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195POLICE COURT. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4552, 18 April 1923, Page 2
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