CRAZE FOR STEALING.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3413, 18 February 1920, Page 7

CRAZE FOR STEALING.

HAMILTON YOZUTH CO)IMI'.I‘TED. t HAIVT‘-"T-‘TON, Feb. 14. l A youth named C:§‘E;:':l9s Patrick Me- ! Allister pleaded guilty ‘at Hamilton, yesterday to theft of a leather suit case and contents, valued at £33 16/, the property of the New Zealaud Government. The evidence showed that accused went to the Hamilton railway station to sescure a. parcel which he had left there. and was given the portmanteau by mistake. He took the bag; away, forced the lock, and took some of the contents to’Aucklalld, where he ‘pawned them. The remainder was recovered in a bag in :1 Cambridge hotel. Accused, whto had nothing to say was committed to the Auckland Supreme Court for sentence. He was also eliarged with stealing a, set of harness, valued at £5, the property 01": Vincent Lewis; a saddle’, valued £3 10/. the pl:-Ioperty of A. D. Kovirh; a sadrlle, valued £4, the property of .T. Clements; and D. saddle, valued £1 10/, the property <l. D. V. Bryant. M Aeetlserl elected to be dealt withi snininarily. and pleaded gililty to all the (-llarg;'e:~'. Senior Se'l'geant Till stated that‘ laecusm] stole the saddles and lrarnoss tfrom yards and stables in Hamilton. land sul').<<equently disposed of’ tlH‘mVVl2en m'l'este(l he inuclp :1 statement admitting‘ all the offences, and the '3.l'tlclcs had all been reco‘vm-erl. Accusvtl \\'as e.on‘vic»ted on all e.l2are'e.\'. end ords-red to come up til!‘ :<ent(m-e it‘ eellevl ‘rpm. The _e;00d:-‘g were m'(ler<-(l to he '..u‘urned to tl'-12*‘ resp-;=ctive‘owners. M‘e.~'.<r.< R. F‘. l;l:1,\'- I cock, and H. N. Armstl'nn'_". J.l‘.'= occupied the bench. t