PUKEKOHE POLICE COURT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 362, 24 May 1928, Page 12

PUKEKOHE POLICE COURT

MAN FINED FOR THEFT (From Our Own Correspondent) PUKEKOHE, Wednesday. Evidence of a conflicting nature I characterised a theft case heard at the Pukekohe Police Court £ Messrs. D. M. Armstrong and lLawrie, J.P.’s. . Harry King Irwin, a Waiau ryoung man, pleaded guilty to the tn of a number of tools, but denied n ing stolen others. A farmer and neighbour, JMIw h _ r Gilroy, deposed to having a numoe of tools and a tin of petrol stmen from his shed during the night of May The articles recovered were identm by witness as his. An employee said he found a , of a screwdriver in a paddock aDO half a mile distant, and half way " Irwin’s residence. Witness identineu a piece of galvanised piping with nt tings attached , Two brothers and the father of a cused claimed that a nurr.oer of tn articles produced in court were property of The Bench Look a lenient \iev the case and inflicted a fine of Accused agreed to all the tools be returned to Gilroy. s A Pukekohe young man Percy Frederick Parris, aged io >ea«, was convicted of being an idle a hh h , orderly person and without means of support, and come up for sentence if called P° within twelve months. It was said that accused fre s u f“L. the streets, billiard rooms and hote and had done very little work duirthe past 15 months. He resided »- home with his widowed mother * received money from relations friends. . Counsel claimed that there " n j difference between accused s < ex thousands of other unemployed Dominion.