THEFTS ADMITTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 76, 31 March 1941, Page 4

THEFTS ADMITTED.

SOLDIER AND GIRL. |DETENTION TERMS ORDERED , .\ -oi.li-r ill battle die.-.-. .loll! | Michael (Icoi-cc Johu-on. aged Jl. am | Moreen C.ni-tance Vome.'. a'.'cd 21 a fae : io,-.. band, appear.d !..;:< Him in lie- dod, I m 'the Police I oiirt. before Mr. I-'. II : |.e\ i, ii. S.M.. lo da> . 1 i"\ ucl-c joint l,\ eh.ir-ed with t !•" : In-fi of I'-'k w bile lln ; -irl.'ah.in-, w.i- a!-" charged u il h I h- I b-l'l '; ~j ,Vi chin ' pialc- v.ii-acd al til. Tiim I were luri In-r , hai-.-c- "f iliefi ..f an o\i.-r | pl-'.le war,', two -lain.::.- and a spirit I | l.i -1-. ol a i. I'ii vabic of CI I" j broii-hi :■•_..! iu-l dohu i'm w ! Mr j No'.le appeared. lloili aceu-el plcad-d I guilt \. I |), iecli\e Sciyeanl \pi : .ll. e. in. p!.,-c I curd, -aid .li.iin-on cam,- I-. Au.-kland | from 'I rent iiain I amp on I'ebruarx ■'- i and met a man w in. nviti d bim I" -lay jat a llal in Hcrne Is.iv . 1.a1e,, the girl j > oimg al.-o at the -aim- II M. from ' w iiicli ari'e-ie- l.elomjing to the landlord wdc -loh-u b.v .l.ihnVoU from a eii|4)oanl and -old by him to a second-hand dealer t..r CI. .lobn-oii. after leaving the Hat. wc;i: io -tay in the home ~f a man in I'm- Str.-ci . \ e -.-. lon. Thi.- man 1..-friended .loiui.-ou. When the man left for work .luliii-mi stole hi, coal and -old it to a deal -r for 17/ li. While at the Heine Hay llal hoi Ii accused got po.--e--iou of a regi-tercd letter addressed to a \onng w.niiau ami opened it ami extracted C'! in note-. .Johnson kept C'_' and -a\c Vimng CI. The money had -in,,, been cpenl. "Johnson i- now wanted on warrau l by the military auihorilic- foi b-iiej a!«-ent without leave from .am|i." added Mr. Apliu. "<inc he ha- been in Aueklaml h<- ha- b-en lea-.l'ing a I life, and a-r-m-ia I ing with ululc-ira ■I • charaetei't-. lb- ha- a li-i m pr.-viou-eonvic-tions. Tiii- -ill Vnuii'.: ha,- nl-o been leading a 10.'.-e life. In Ma v. ..I last year -in- w.i- ordered l<> cere up for sentence if called upon within a \ ea, conditions iiiipo-:,l by l.'ae niagi-t rat--being that r-lie wa- not to a-.-, eiate with a certain man and thai -he mu.-l live with her parent- in Auckland. I low ev,--. . -he had left her home ami had liv -d with this man. She i- now 'jack with her parents." Mr. Levien ordered the girl Young in be detained in the Borstal Institute at Point Halsvvell for 12 months, lie -cm fenced Johnson lo three month.-' imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by \- months' reformative detention, on one charge, ami convicted and discharged him on the others.