IMPRISONED FOR THEFT.
CARPENTER STEALS TOOLS.
" CHEATED HIS FRIENDS."
The opinion that there was no other place but prison for accused was expressed by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, in sentencing Albert Wilfred Small, aged 34, carpenter, married, to three months' imprisonment on a charge of theft. Accused appeared for sentence on seven counts of stealing carpenters' tools. In passing sentence on one charge and convicting and discharging accused on the remainder, the magistrate said that he had received an unfavourable report from the probation officer, Mr. W. J. Campbell. lie felt that he was treating accused leniently in sentencing him to three months' imprisonment. Accused had deliberately cheated his friends.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20249, 8 May 1929, Page 13
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