FOUND IN GARDEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1937, Page 11

FOUND IN GARDEN.

MIDNIGHT EPSOM ARREST.

PROBATION FOR LABOURER.

Still persisting in his original etory that he was seeing a girl home when she bolted from him, and that he had tried to overtake her, Robert LonmUle Jones, a labourer, aged 28, who yceterday pleaded guilty to a charge of being found without lawful excuse in the enclosed yard of premises in Clive Road, Epsom, at midnight on Saturday, appeared before Mr. W. R. McKean! S.M., in the Police Court thus morning for sentence.

After hearing . the facts from SubInspeotor Fox yesterday, the magistrate remanded Jonea until to-day for eentence in order that a report might be available from the probation officer. "I have received the probation officer's report, and I notice that you ttill persist in your story," ««id Mr. McKean to-day. "But I don't believe that etory. However, the report concerning you i» a favourable one. What you need ia a period of supervision."

In admitting Jones to probation for two year*, the magistrate explained to him that this vu not an end to the matter. Sentence was really only suspended and if he did not behave himself in future he was liable to be brought up on the original charge and also on a charge of a breach of hie probationary license.