ASKED TO BE CHARGED
ADMISSION OF THEFT. TABLET PORTER’S ACTION. COUNSEL’S ADVICE IGNORED. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. The unusual action of a remanded man calling at the Police Station asking that he be brought before the Court immediately was described when Herbert Albert Edward Scott, aged' 32, a tablet porter, was charged with stealing a handsaw, and obtaining sums totalling £3 by false pretences. ; Accused’s counsel said that against his advice accused was pleading guilty to all charges, saying lie had no hope, and it was a case of his word against another’s. Counsel thought that ’ accused stole the saw, but that he was not guilty of the other charges'. A detective said that Scott told the police that if left on bail he could go away in the Aorangi to America. The Magistrate granted six months’ probation and ordered restitution.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 268, 26 August 1930, Page 6
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