YOUNG MAN'S THEFT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1937, Page 11

YOUNG MAN'S THEFT.

GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE. PROBATIONER WARNED. The theft on January 7 of a pair of trousers, belt and handkerchief, of a total value of £1 19/9, was admitted by Norman Rupert Cottle, aged 21, a labourer, in the Police Court this morning. Cottle, said Detective - Sergeant McHugh, went to stay with a friend who was employed on the staff of a gentlemen's club. While there he stole the articles from the room of another member of the staff and sold the trousers and belt for 6/. At present unemployed, accused, who had been working, in the bush recently, was at present on probation. He had offered to make restitution.

•In stating that since he had been on probation Cottle had worked well, the probation officer, Mr. Anderson, recommended that he should be given another chance. Accused, he said, would return to the country and resume his work.. Cottle told the magistrate that he was hard up at the time he committed the theft.

Reminding Cottle that .he had been leniently dealt with in the past and warning him that if he again offended he would no doubt, be given a long term of reformative detention, Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., ordered Cottle to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months and to make restitution of £1 19/9. "There is no reason why you should not make jrood if you return to the country," he added.