WIFE'S APPEAL SUCCEEDS.
MILD SENTENCE FOR THEFT.
(By Telegraph—Special to "Star.")
WELLINGTON, this dav.
An appeal for leniency was read in Court to-day from a wife on behalf of her husband, when Gordon Thomas Amundsen (alias Amunsden), a plumber, aged 28, pleaded guilty to having stolen a pair of field glasses, a greenstone aie and a set of carvers of the total value of £13 10/ from a trunk in a furnished house which he had rented. A storv was told that accused had been out of employment and depressed, in addition to which he was a chronic sufferer from jthe effects of war service. In her appeal the wife said she was sure that her husband would not steal asain. as they were now in better circumstances. She would help him all she could. The magistrate extended to accused an opportunity to behave better by admitting him to probation, and ordering him to pay the value of the unrecovered goods, £12.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 247, 18 October 1928, Page 7
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