MEAN ACT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 191, 15 August 1939, Page 10

MEAN ACT.

STOLE FROM FRIEND.

BOY WHO HAD HELPED HIM.

LABOURER GETS TWO WEEKS,

"Because you have been treated leniently before you think you can carry on being dishonest, but you can't. This boy was helping you on your way and then you stole from him." said Mr. J. Morling. S.M.. in the Police Court today, to a labourer, John Lewis Hurrell (27). Hurrell pleaded guilty to a charw of stealing S/ belonging to Percy James Coombes, at Xew Plymouth, on March 20 last. Detective-Sergeant McHugh said Coombes was a lad who worked on a farm at Fitzrov, New Plymouth. Hurrell chummed up with him and borrowed Coombes' cycle and also 10/ from him. After he had been lent the money Hurrell returned to the farm, where the boy worked and in a whare occupied by the boy took S/ from his clothing. The boy's cycle was left in a New Plymouth transport office. Later Hurrell wrote to the boy and to!d him where the cycle could be found. '•Hurrell is at present serving 14 days' imprisonment for default of maintonar.ee and is to l>e discharged to-morrow," added Mr. McHugh. His theft of the boy's money was a particularly mean one."' Hurrell. who had nothing to say. was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment.