A TRADESMAN'S LAPSE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 120, 14 October 1914, Page 4

A TRADESMAN'S LAPSE.

THEFT W OOLMXiE MA'IMHAL. (I

4J By Telegraph.—Per Tress Association, / Auckland, La&t Night. \ An unusual class of theft charge came •before Mr. Prazur, S.M., when John Auld, aged 4<i year*, a plumber witi a prosperous business, who for. twelveyears had been instruotor in the Technical College, was charged that on Sen-' tcmibex 25uh he stole 2aa worth of bloett' zinc from the college, and on October 12 committedi a similar ulieft. He pkadi cd guilty. .j Chief-Detective McMahon said that accused wa 8 a man, of -substance, in addition to being a very iino tradesman,' w;ht> received £IOO a year for \iecs as instructor at tlie Technical Col-i'" legfc Suspicion had, however, fallen on him, and a detective last night oUght hira practically red-handed stealing a' blocik of zinc, of the sort used for mak- • ing solder, which he carried away in al 'handbag. Oa behalf of accused, ha stat-t! «1 that Auld had recen%i tofet his wife,' while one of Ins children had b'acn takvn" feriously ill, and the result was-'that he Ikml givim way Hiiddeivly to drink, wh'nOi was tlia cause of 'his lapse, .;. Accused was lined £lO on the first chiiige juid £■£) on. the second^