TOOK WOMAN'S PROPERTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 289, 7 December 1931, Page 9

TOOK WOMAN'S PROPERTY.

LABOUBER'S OFFENCES. [RESTITUTION ORDERED. Mati llilieh, a 'labourer, aged 3S, pleaded not guilty in the Police Court this morning to stealing, on November 28 a "woman's purse, valued at 15/ and 4/2 in money, and on November IS, a - woman's coat, valued at £7, a handbag, valued at £l, a Post Office bank book and £1 hi monev, all the property of Florence E. Thompson. Avery long story was told by Morence Thompson. She said that on November ;'. 18 she was going through Albert Park on her way to the police station to ask for police protection from accused. He fallowed her from Queen Street and in tie park grabbed her handbag and the coat which she was carrying over her arm- On November 2S he met her in Queen Street, and took her handbag from her. ; Counsel said the had been living - together for some time and had rait a joint banking account. The woman had 'taken some of the money which accused considered was his, and when he could ' not get the police to recover it he thought he was entitled to get it back by taking some of her belongings. He /.; had* not taken the things with the idea of "stealing. * • Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., convicted accused and ordered him to come up for sentence 'when caEed upon, and to make restitu- " tiontotaHing £5 12/6.