THEFT OF CLOTHES
YOUTH ADMITTED TO PROBATION
“He comes of a respectable family, but has become a young blackguard.” Thus described by the probation officer, a youth, aged 19, pleaded guilty at the Police Court this morning to a charge of stealing clothing valued at £2. He was further charged with obtaining two sums of money, each of 15s 4d, by means of valueless cheques. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said that the prisoner had been sharing a tent at a Public Work’s camp, with the man from whom he stole the clothes. In regard to the other charges, the Detec-tive-Sergeant said that the youth had found a cheque-book and signed cheques with a fictitious name. There was no question of forgery involved. The stolen property had been recovered.
The youth was convicted and sentenced to two years’ probation on the first charge, being ordered to make restitution on the other charges. An appeal for suppression of name, made by the boy’s brother, was granted.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 429, 10 August 1928, Page 13
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162THEFT OF CLOTHES Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 429, 10 August 1928, Page 13
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