NEARLY £4,000 LOSS
CARGO PILLAGERS’ DEPREDATIONS TWO WATERSIDERS GET PROBATION DURING the past 12 months, shipping- companies have lost goods valued at £3,949 14s 4d through cargo pillage at Auckland. s
rpHIS statement -was made by ChiefDetective J. Cummings in the Police Court this morning, when John Wallace Thurlow, aged 25, and Leslie Robert William Knight, aged 25, waterside workers, appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing from cargo 40 yards of silk valued at £5 6s 9d. PLEA FOR PROBATION Mr. J. J. Sullivan, who appeared for accused, said they had already spent
a week in prison, and he suggested that the case was one for probation. The magistrate, Mr. W. R. McKean, said he had serious doubts about granting probation, but the- probation officer had made good reports concerning the men. “You have tasted prison," said the magistrate to accused, “so you know where your conduct is heading you to.” They were admitted to probation for two years, and ordered to make restitution.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 82, 28 June 1927, Page 1
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