“A CLEAN SHEET”
CARETAKER ERRS LATE IN LIFE “I do not wish to punish a man who has a clean sheet up to 47 years of age,** said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court this morning, in ordering Joseph Henry Cole to come up for sentence within six months if called upon. Cole, who was represented by Mr. R. A. Sin gar, pleaded guilty to the theft of an electro -plated teapot, valued at £2 3s 6d, the property of Richard Kels Smith. Mr. Singer said that Cole was employed as a cleaner in a Queen Street restaurant, and had found the teapot in the rubbish bin. Cole had been in ill-health for some time, and had been earning only 15s a week. Detective -Sergeant Kelly, who said the prisoner had not been before the court previously, also said that the teapot had been pawned for 7s. Cole was ordered to make restitution, an appeal for suppression of the name being refused.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 434, 16 August 1928, Page 1
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