STOLEN GOODS RECEIVED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 161, 10 July 1930, Page 8

STOLEN GOODS RECEIVED.

YOUTH REMANDED IN COURT.

"VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCES."

Having pleaded guilty to receiving cigarettes and a shirt valued at 16/, knowing that they were stolen property, a youth was remanded till to-morrow for sentence by Mr. F.- K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court this morning. The young ' man's name was . ordered to be suppressed. Another charge of receiving property valued at £13 "10/ was withdrawn.Chief Detective Hammond said that accused had a bedroom in a garage at the back of his home and had slept there with two other youths, who since had been sentenced in the Supreme Court for theft. The latter two had set out on a geries of thefts and had taken all the property to the room. They had given accused about a dozen packets of cigarettes and a shirt, but there was 110 real evidence that lie had received the goods. Accused said that he had asked his friends to remove the property from his room, but that had not been done. He admitted receiving the cigarettes and the shirt, knowing that they were stolen property. . Mr. Terry, who appeared for accused, said il c goods had been dumped on him. Ho did not wear the shirt. "I think," he said, "accused has been the most,innocent, victim of; circumstances."' . Mr. Hunt: An honest lad.would have turned tliem'out at once. ' Mr. Terry said that the youth had : an excellent character and suggested that he be placed on probation. His application for his client's name to be suppressed was granted after some" argument with Mr. Hunt.