“TRY AND BE A MAN."
ADVICE TO WRONG-DOER. WHAT A MAGISTRATE SAID. "I will give you a cliance, nut remember it is not the end of the matter when you step out of the dock today. I want to save you from a criminal career. Take the warning and help given you, and try and be a man.” In these words Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M-, addressed. Vician Raymond Pudney, a young man who appeared before him recently charged with the theft of £5, the property of the Bank of New Zealand, and £45 3s 3d, and a bunch of keys valued, at 4s the property of the National Electrical and Engineering Co., Ltd. Chief-Detective Kemp said that when the theft wjas discovered accused had made a clean breast of everything, in order, he' said, to avoid any suspicion being cast on other who had handled the money. It was the first time he had been in trouble. His employers did not wish to press the matter, as full restitution had been made.
On the first charge accused was admitted to probation for two year§, and on the second he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon within six months.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4902, 13 November 1925, Page 1
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206“TRY AND BE A MAN." Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4902, 13 November 1925, Page 1
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