UNHEEDED WARNINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1928, Page 9

UNHEEDED WARNINGS.

•"CARELESS SHOPKEEPERS."

| old obhohax. gaoled tor rim PRZTEXCEI.

COMMENT BY MAGISTRATE.

&'■ Tis carelessness of shopkeepers was 'tether demonstrated by a ease which ||v, • " Wis heard at the Police Court this | Morning. John Lennox (62) was in the dock to guilty to a charge of baring two ladies' jumpers worth £2 •od £8 in money by means of a iM^jMlMles^heque. ir (1 . v ;/ "This ora man went into one of Auck--1 *od'« leading draper's shops 'the other day 'and bought two ladies i jumpers," Chief Detective Hammond. "They «!>' ;-i J*** him a blank cheque, filled , it in to B '? n an d afterwards cashed £j|» W course it was a valueless cheque. ne *t day Lennox, evidently finding RW-lf"?* * B e««y way of making money, returned to the shop.He obtained I|S'v cheque and signed it "Jock McW'y, forgetting that , the first wbb «,, f j, j«gned "Jock Cameron." The assistant this mintake and detained Lente *ho was later arrested. Lennox has W tM' long list of previous convictions for ijitfp; sort of offence and haa twice been 111 , an habitual criminal. He lives ffib 't*f false pretences and has been at this l>oW '° r yta "' ** i ,,We jjjjsMft., "The carelessness of shopkeepers still despite many warnings," said EKsr'i f*e magistrate, Mr. W. P,. McKean. HE4#» Bnox told the magistrate that he been on a drinking bout. "It's gC ywy drink that gets me iiito trouble," ijjf 1 M added. Mr. McKean (perusing accused's list): y ou do not seem to have ever locked up for drunkenness. W.>•;' *«• teJJs a remarkably good tale," PS> j «iMr. Hammond. ** e that you were declared an K : j ffWtual criminal in 1908 and again in I; <<'4' - 84 ' d the magistrate. ''The only |«w/' ti* ' or to Mn d you back to gaol, !rf22P** months' imprisonment." |f, you, sir," Lennox said as he Bfijs ' P**ed and left the dock.