COMEDY IN CRIME.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10068, 9 February 1909, Page 4

COMEDY IN CRIME.

( P.-.p. Pr.rrss Association*.) A tick laud. February 3. At ''"• e erindmd sitting of the Supreme Cour; to-ilry ycith named Charles I Srr-v.".::: Le_ r -_*e *.v,i> up «>u two charges of theft from the post <»lh' e. Cor-<-m-moe!. Couneil for the accused iMr Kan) design.ited the affair a? Wing somethirii: ;ike a burn-.-tpie of crime, a y-'.uth of o a j- t .jy tinpltiyed in tiie post otti-v had through s.heer mental incapa- « itj". cot his money accounts mixed, and had i"mei\eu the idea of having a burL'airy to clv:fr tho situation, ffe had. in tact. talKed about this impending burglary ir. quite an open manner, and had'disthe probable results of it even with his euier. and then came ihe burirlarv its'.r. tne of £J39 odd. and the subsequent admission of rhi* prisoner tha,t he had put the money in a kerosene tin down the garden. Tfie prisoner had at all times been dull wittecL Taken in as a lettercarrier. he had shortly bei*n put in charge e-f a counter, and was entrusted with the ray mens ..f old age pensions, amounting to £220 a month, eventually to find him-j-ol: sevvrad pounds out in his accounts, and. argned Mr Earl, apparently the only way he saw out of it was the fantastic one of hc- dmg a burglary. His Honor considered the case before him was clearly so unusual and differenf from the average* offer.ee that he did not intend to send the prL-oi.er to _caol. He would b. convicted and ordt-re<l to appear for sentence when required, besides being called upon to pay the \«>sts Of the i>roseeution' f^nhwitli i£2 14?).