LEFT TO HIS WORSHIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 123, 15 August 1927, Page 13

LEFT TO HIS WORSHIP

PRISONER IN DOUBT MAGISTRATE’S SOLUTION Committed from Otahuhu Court to be sentenced at Onehunga, Norman Alexander Dunn told Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., this morning that he could not decide whether he was guilty or not. He simply left that opinion to his Worship. Three charges were preferred against Dunn —stealing 15s, misappropriating £ll 6s Id, stealing a motor-car engine block valued at £4, and an Ajax motor tyre valued at £2 ss. The circumstances were somewhat complicated, but were, briefly; Dunn had misappropriated the two smaller sums given to him to pay bills- With regard to the larger sum, he had taken over a quarry contract from Mr. J. Warren to deliver stone, on the condition that he collected the royalties and paid them over to Mr. Warren. He had received £IJ odd, but failed to pay it over. Arrangements were made by which he was to be allowed to refund the money by instalments from his weekly wages. After paying £4 he failed in his arrangements to pay any further. As to the theft of the engine block and tyre, he had sold the goods named in the charge. . The bench pointed out that Dunn had previously been placed upon probation, and as he had not taken advantage of that point of magisterial leniency, future special mercy appeared out of place. He would be committed to the Borstal Home for two years on the misappropriation of the royalty money and convicted only upon tho remaining two charges.