THEFT FROM CARS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 4

THEFT FROM CARS

1 ONE YEAR'S REFORMATIVi DETENTION FOR YOUNG MAN. Charged at the Rotorua Mag : trate's Court' before Mr. S. L. Pafi \ son, S.M., yesterday, with the thi of- an overcoat and rug of a to value of £3, Francis Charles Roni 1 Herbert, alias Ashman an'd Dona : son, aged 26 years, pleaded guil and was sentenced to twelve mbnt ref ormative detention. / ; I Senior-Sergeant J. Carroll sa : that a taxi driver named Sibley h: parked his car in a Rotorua str? on June 11 last and when he i turned he found that the rug ai - coat • were missing. On June " Sibley saw a Maori wearing the cc and found that he had purchasedj from a Rotorua auction mart. 1 Senior-Sergeant Carroll said t| the accused had been working private hotel in -Rotorua until | cently, when he secured work | Taupo. The accused's drinking hj its were the cause of his troflj he submitted that he was a Wa"| and not quite normal. | Asked hy the magistrate if hei anything to say, Herbert said | he had been hard up and had c| mitted the theft on the spur of | moment. Appealing for leniencfi stated that if given a chance he c| secure work at Taupo in the fowl camp. 1 The magistrate pointed out toi cused that he had three previous® victions against him for theftil eonsidered that it was now too l to extend him leniency. Sel tenced accused to 12 months reiorl tive detention. _ 9