A MEAN THEFT.

Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 298, 25 July 1929, Page 4

A MEAN THEFT.

YOUTH STEALS MONEY. Putaniru Man the Victim^ John Ed well Schofield, an erstwhile resident of Putaruru, was charged at the Cambridge Police Court, before Messrs. H. Alan Bell and Chas. Boyce, J.’sP., with stealing £4 from William Edward Clare, bootmaker. The accused pleaded guilty. Constable Jones stated that the accused was in Clare’s shop at Putaruru, when the proprietor asked him to go over to the post office and send £3 15s Id to an insurance company Hamilton by registered letter. Accused took the four notes, but instead of carrying out the instructions put the notes in an envelope and registered the letter to himself at Hamilton, giving Clare the registered slip. Later he collected the money and subsequently Clare received a further demand from the insurance company to pay. When arrested at Horahora the accused admitted his guilt. It was stated that Schofield, who was not long out from Lancashire, was at present on probation for the theft of 15s. As accused was now in permanent employment and liad promised to mend his ways, he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months.