THEFT OF MONEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 170, 20 July 1935, Page 19

THEFT OF MONEY.

TWO YOUNG MEN CHARGED. Two labourers, Alfred Ernest Annan, and John Henry Wallace, both aged 22, appeared before Mr. W. K. McKean, S.M., in the Police ConVt yesterday, charged with stealing 14/0, belonging to William John Ashford.

They pleaded guilty. Senior Detective Hall said on July 11, as the result of a suggestion by Annan, both men entered Ashford's billiard saloon and stole the money. Annan knew where the cashbox. was kept, as he had previously worked as a marker in the saloon. After the cashbox had been broken open both went to Myers Park, where the money was divided. Wallace had never been in trouble before, but Annan had been an inmate of the Borstal, from which he was discharged on January 15. Since he worked in the saloon as a billiard hiarker he had not done any other work.

Mr. S. Clarke, on behalf of Wallace, made a plea for leniency. He was one of a family of 1.3, all of whom had been brought up by the mother under great difficulties and without any of them coming in conflict with the authorities. There was no doubt that Annan was the moving spirit in the matter. The magistrate admitted Wallace to 12 months' probation. Annan was remanded for sentence, pending a report from the probation officer.