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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 82, 7 April 1925, Page 8

i In the Police Court last -week, Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., admitted a young man, Mervyn Roy Walker to probation. AYalker pleaded guilty to the theft of ! £70 from an Auckland hotel, where he ! had been employed as a clerk. At the I time accused stated that he had been 1 charged £70 by an Invercavgill solicitor i who defended him there last year on a I charge of theft, when accused was fined £.->G. At the request of the magistrate accused wrote the name of the solicitor on a sheet of paper mid handed it up to the bench. Mr. Poynton said that accused had evidently been tempted to take the money to pay the Jnvereargill ! solicitor, also the £50 fine inflicted. j However, a letter was yesterday received !by IXfr. Poynton from the solicitor eon- ! cerned, which places quite a different I aspect on the whole matter. The solicii tor stated that accused appeared before I the Court at Inverenrgill in February of Inst year, for the theft of £25. Accused i was fined £00, and the solicitor's firm immediately paid £7o to cover the fine and the restitution. Since then accused had repaid £05 7/10, and thus owed £9 12/2. Therefore, the solicitor received nothing from his services, the young man ' being still in his debt for money lent.