"UNSUITABLE PERSON."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1932, Page 5

"UNSUITABLE PERSON."

| SENTENCED TO BORSTAL '. YOUNG- FARMHAND'S THEFTS. THREW TYPEWRITER OVER CLIFF. I A farm hand, John Arthur Anderson, ' who will be IS 011 November 20, was 1 to-day sentenced bv Mr. W. R. McKean, • S.M., to two years in a Borstal institu- . tion 011 three charges of theft. i The iirst charge was that of theft of - a bicycle, with lamp, valued at £12 10/, ? which accused threw into a creek when ' lie tired of using it. The second charge > was that lie converted to his own use a : yacht, in which he sailed about for a i week and then abandoned. The third » charge was that of stealing a typc--1 writer, valued at about £30, from I Manurewa School, and that after stealing it, threw it over a cliff. He pleaded [ guilty. Detective Sergeant Kelly said that \ Anderson did not appear to be quite , normal, and was an unsuitable person to , have around the countryside. When he ! had been asked to give his reason for . stealing the typewriter, he said that he "wanted to get one 011 to the liead- , master." He had been on probation for , I some time. Accused had told him that ' he "was tired of probation." Mr. McKean: Js that all you have to ! say'! Anderson: Yes.