“A DIFFICULT CASE”

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19901, 2 June 1936, Page 6

“A DIFFICULT CASE”

THEFT 0F SUITCASE. WANDERING ROUND GOUIITIY. i—l YOUTH COMMITTED ’l‘O BORSTAL. “ This is a dimcult case. and I d 0 not know what to recommend to Your "VOTE-hip.“ commented Detective-Ser-scant J. Thompson in the Magistrate‘s Court. Hamilton, yesterday, \\ hen Harry Christopher Norris. aged 1S years, a farm—hand, pleaded guilty to charges of the theft of a suitcase and con—tents valued at £1 13s. the property of Frederick Cyril Williams, and the theft of a cheque valued at £3 the Property of Arthur \\‘ilkinson. Detective-Sergeant Thompson stated that accused {or the past. five months had been wandering around the coun—try working where he could. On Feb—ruary 23 he took a suitcase from a car stationed in Lake Crescent and after going through the contents threw it into some scrub In an empty section. In connection with the other chars? accused picked up a cheque on the Great South Road and he cashed it in Auckland. ” Last June he was sent home by the Child Welfare Department to his parents in Auckland, but he will not stay there," added Mr Thompson. “He has got no home to go to and if he is discharged 1- do not know what he wlll do."

Mr S. L. Paterson 5.3 L, who was on the bench. convicted accused on the first charge and sentenced him to seven days‘ imprisonment and on the second charge convicted him and sent him to Borstal for two years.