THEFTS ADMITTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 178, 31 July 1933, Page 9

THEFTS ADMITTED.

FARM LABOURER'S LAPSE.

YOUNG MAN FOR SENTENCE

Six charges of stealing articles, including a razor, watch, overcoat, suit, pair of gloves, shoes, suitcase and a shirt, and eums of £2 2/." and £5, the total value of the goods and money being £2!) (i/, were brought agnmst Kobert Charles Green, aged 20, farm labourer, in the Police Court this morning. Green pleaded guilty. Detective-Sergeant McHugh said Green, on duly 12. Mas staying at a boardinghouse 'in Dargavillc. He was caught after stealing from the room of one°of the boarders. He sold a stolen suitcase to a dealer. On another occasion, from the Dargavillc Club, he stole billiard fees amounting to £•">. while he also stole £2 2/3 from clothing. He afterwards came to Auckland, and from the Y.M.C.A. he stole a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes. Nothing was known about him previously. Some of the goods had been recovered, and the total amount of restitution was £0 13/. Green came to New Zealand from England in P. 129 under the Church of Kn '- land immigration scheme, and had until recently been working as a farm labourer. "Ho has been all right until he commenced this thieving on July 12." added Mr. McHugh.

On the recommendation of the probation officer, (Ireen was remanded until Saturday next for sentence.