A CONTEMPTIBLE CAREER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 19, 10 June 1914, Page 5

A CONTEMPTIBLE CAREER.

CADGiXG, FORCiERY AND THEFT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night.' About a month ago a young man, named Herbert Walter MeCrea Bull, appeared before the Auckland Police Court on a series of charges of having victimised a number of persons round Auckland to the extent of £lO, which he had extracted in sums varying from 10s to 22s Od, by means of some pitiful tale, in the recounting of which his victims said he ' was a past master. Bull admitted the offences, and sentence was deferred pending the taking of three charges of forgery upon which he had to come before the Supreme Court. Bull came up during tho present scs- ' sion on the forgery charge, and the Judge committed him to gaol for a year's reformative treatment. This morning, when Bull appeared before Mr. Frazer, S.M., on twelve charges of victimisation, there was still another to add to the long list, the latest being that 'of failing to account to his employer at Feilding for some rC9 odd. Chief-Detective McMahon, in detailing ' Bull's varied offences, which were committed between December 20, 1913, and May 7 last, said they were of a contemptible nature. The man had frequently had charity extended to him, and had always abused it. As far as the Feilding matter was concerned, Detective McMahon said he understood the amount of which Bull had deprived his employer was more like £4O. Mr. Frazer remarked that there were so many charges—thirteen in all—that ho could not pass the case over by allowing the Supreme Court sentence upon the forgery charges to stand by itself. His Worship ordered Bull to be detained for reformative treatment for a period of two years, the term to be concurrent with that of the Supreme Court sentence so far as the first year was concerned.