LAZY THIEF
CAUSED AGED MOTHER TO WORK DETENTION FOR TWO YEARS Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. In the Magistrate’s Court today, Archibald John Clifford Searle, a motor salesman, aged 20, pleaded guilty ro stealing a tram per’s outfit valued it £25 6s 6d, and goods valued at £6 12s. Detective-Sergeant Holmes said accused was so lazy be would not get up to work, and when he did gr*t employment the employers said ho was not worth employing. The probation officer’s report said accused’s mother, aged 60, had been eompolled to go to work on account of his spendthrift habits. He was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention on the first charge and to • ome up for sentence if called on. on the second.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1011, 30 June 1930, Page 10
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122LAZY THIEF Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1011, 30 June 1930, Page 10
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