STOLE FOR FAMILY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 564, 17 January 1929, Page 1

STOLE FOR FAMILY

COOK TAKES FOWLS GAOL THE NEXT TIME ‘‘What he took was not for him- | seif but to provide food for his ! wife and family,” declared Mr. Kells Mason, defending Ernest Arnold at the Police Court this morning. Arnold pleaded guilty to the theft of two cooked fowls and a quantity of bacon, valued at 16s. from Albert Augustus Brown. Counsel explained that g Arnold had j been out of work until he obtained a i position at £4 a week at a private hotel. He had been allowed to take home small pieces of meat and other broken food, but had succumbed to tdlnptation and taken more than he should have done. It was seven years since Arnold had been before the court; and then it was only for taking . a small quantity of foodtsuffs from a ; steamer. There was a possibility I that the man’s employer might take i him back, so counsel asked for the imposition of a fine. "There is no possibility of his going back to his position,” contradicted Chief-Detective Hammond. "The employer is determined to make an example of him.” "Any more of this petty thieving and you will go to gaol,” warned Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M.. as he imposed a fine of £2.