CALLED THE POLICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 140, 15 June 1932, Page 8

CALLED THE POLICE.

AFTER THROWING FLOWER POT. YOUNG MAN'S OFFENCES. Charges of wilfully damaging a pane of glass valued at 3/7 and the theft of £2 were brought against Clarence Levi Jackson, a motor mechanic, aged 29, who appeared before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court this morning. Detective Sergeant Kelly said Jackson rang for the police about 11 p.m. on June 1, and when Sergeant Clark arrived at Nelson Street accused was waiting for him at a telephone box. They went to a house in Nelson Street, where it was found that accused had thrown a flower-pot through a window. "Jackson admitted the offence, and said that he had committed other offences which he wanted to get cleared up," said Mr. Kelly. "He was driving a motor lorry for a man named Taylor, and got £2 from him for repairs. He admitted that he spent the money wastefully."

Jackson's counsel said ho was drunk when he threw the flower-pot through the window. He had been in gaol since his arrest, but had not previously been in trouble since 1029.

Accused was convicted and ordered to make good the damage to the window. He was also placed on probation for 12 months and instructed to take out a prohibition order.