GETTING LEMONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 282, 29 November 1888, Page 5

GETTING LEMONS.

Joseph Scott (14), Thomas Beeston (12)> Albert Parsons (14), William James Tanner (IS), and Alfred Tanner (12) appeared, on remand, at the Polios Court this morning to answer to the charge of having stolen a quantity of lemons, value 2s, from the garden of Henri Jean Leßailly on the 18tn of November.

Messrs H. Rees George and L. Ehrenfried were on the Bench.

The Probation Officer, Mr Reston, handed in his report, which was perused by the Bench.

Mr W. J. Napier appeared on behalf of the boy Scott, and asked that the Bench should dea) with him under the 87th clause of the J.P. Act, by Landing him down to Kood behaviour in the future, his mother to go bail for him. He suggested that course because he had invariably found that when the parents were rendered liable they took greater care to properly control their children.

The Bench said that the Probation Officer's report was not at all favourable.

.Mr Napier said that he could bringevidence as to the good character of the boy Scott. He might have been wild, but he had never before committed an oll'ence.

Mr Bceston, stepfather of one of the lads, objected to going bail and suggested that a good flogging and 24 hours' solitary confinement would be the best.

Mr Parsons coincided in that opinion. He also objected to going bail for his son's conduct.

The Bench, after a lengthy consideration, sentenced Scott to pay a fine of 10s and costs, or 24 hours in default. They expressed the hope that the leniency shown on this occasion would make the boy better in the future. They had been lenient a3 they considered that his action had been the result of want of patental control. Hid mother would be required to give £10 bail for his future good conduct. Thomas Beeston was fined 5s and costs, or 24 hours in default. The Bench remarked that he also was stated to be quito a nuisance in the neighbourhood. Albert Parsons was fined 5s and costs, or '2A hours in default. William James Tanner was fined 2s, the value of the lemons» and his brother, being only ten years of age, was dismissed.

The Bench remarked that the two latter boys seemed to have been led astray by the others, as they both bore good characters.