SAVED FROM GAOL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 906, 25 February 1930, Page 11

SAVED FROM GAOL

PROBATION OFFICER’S GOOD REPORT DANCE HALL THIEF “Yesterday I intended to send you to gaol, but a good report from the probation officer has prompted me to fine you,” commented Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., when Charles Frederick Treanor appeared at the Police Court this morning for sentence on two charges of theft. Treanor, a labourer, aged 21, was arrested in a Newton dance hall on Saturday evening, when he was caught in the theft of a girl’s purse. Yesterday he pleaded guilty to two charges of stealing purses and contents, each valued at 10s, one on January 25, and the other on February 22. He was remanded until this morning for sentence. Both purses had been recovered, according to Senior-Sergeant O’Grady. One had been thrown over a fence into a garden after the money had been taken from it. The other was found on accused when he was arrested. The magistrate described the offences as “particularly mean thefts.” Accused had been on probation before and he would have no hope of escaping a gaol term if he appeared again. Treanor was fined £lO, in default two months’ imprisonment. He was ordered to make restitution, £l, and (o pay witnesses’ expenses, £1 10s. On the second charge he was convicted and discharged.