SENT TO PRISON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 205, 29 August 1940, Page 9

SENT TO PRISON.

FALSE PRETENCE. YOUNG MAN'S OFFENCE. Stating that it was not a case of sudden temptation but one deliberately committed, Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court to-day, sent Claude Albert Taylor to prison for obtaining an electric motor, valued at £4 10/, by falsely representing that it wa> for the New Zealand Institute of Technology. Mr. Aekins represented Taylor, who pleaded guilty to the summons charge. Detective-Sergeant Walsh *aid that on February 13 last, Taylor, who was employed by the institute as an instrument repairer, obtained the motor by etating it wi? for his employers. Immediately after obtaining the motor, he sold it to another firm for £4 10/. Taylor was only three or four weeks in the employ of the institute and left two days after he sold the motor. '•Thirty-six yea re of age he has previously been in trouble for dishonest v."' added Mr. Walsh. '"His last conviction was for bigamy." Mr. Aekins said that at the time of the offeucc Taylor had been pressed for maintenance and foolishly yielded to temptation. It was not a case of squandering the money wrongfully obtained, as he lused it to make a maintenance payment. "He elected to take two wives and he has paid the penalty for it," Mr. Aekius said. The magistrate remarked that Taylor was released before serving the 'full term of imprisonment imposed for bigg my. Mr. Aekins: As the late Sir Thomas Wilford once said, it was punishment enough for any man to take upon himself two mother-in-laws. I would ask your worship to give Taylor a final chance. "He knew the consequences of committing an offence of this sort for he has previously been convicted on two charges of false pretences for which he was admitted to probation," Mr. Orr Walker eaid. "He must be shown that he cannot commit offences like this and escape punishment. He will be sentenced to one month's imprisonment."