THEFTS FROM A HOTEL.
» ) YOUNG NATIVE’S OFFENCE.
RAID AT WAITARA. The sequel to a raid on bedrooms in the Club Hotel, Waitara, was the appearance in jthe Magistrate’s Court yesterday moiling, of a Native lad, aged nearly eighteen years, named Henry Kaipo. There x were seven charges, to each of which a plea of guilty was entered. The articles and the persons from whom stolen were: Watch and handbag (valued at £2 4p) from Gladys E. Mouat; collars, ’kerchiefs, tobacco pouch, cigarette cahe, hat, jersey and brilliantine ( £5 0s 6d), from Leonard Sheehan; razor, shaving-brush, toothpaste and brush, socks and ’kerchief ( £1 ss), from G. A. Brown; razor and tobacco (Ila lOd), from A. A. Jackson; razor, brush cap (£1), from B. Dakin; wristlet watch and hand-bag ( £3 7s 6d), from Eveline Noralof. The total value of the articles was £l4 '6s 4d.
Senior-. Sergeant M‘Crorie stated that at 7 p-m. on January 17 the accused' entered the Club Hotel, ascended the back stairway and took the articles from the bedrooms. Some of the articles were found on . his person subsequently by a constable and the others were found in a billiard room. He had been convicted before of three offences.
Mr. A. A. Bennett pleaded on behalf of the accused that the whole trouble could be attributed ta drink; when free from it the accused had no criminal tendencies. He was a son of the Rev. H. W. Kaipo, Church of England Native minister stationed in North Taranaki, and when he lived at home his conduct had been quite good. Mr. Bennett said he would ask that he be absolutely prohibited from taking drink. Evidence was given by the father and Archdeacon Evans as to the behavior and character of the accused. It was explained that the father had no regular hQjde tn this district and had come from North Auckland. His Worship entered a conviction and deferred sentence for one week in order that the probation officer might furnish a report. He said that if he did giant probation he thought it would bfe a serious stretching of thF'law because, as he understood it, probation was intended to be granted to those who broke the law while carried away by the excitement of the moment, and this young rnan. who had been convicted three times befpre could not plead that he had been carried away by excitement.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 January 1922, Page 8
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