THEFT OF TWO BALES OF WOOL
AUCKLAND MAN ADMITTED TO PROBATION (FBEBB ASSOCIATIOB TELKQBAU.) AUCKLAND, April 21. A plea of guilty to a charge of stealing two bales of wool, valued at £ls, at To Miro, near Cambridge, on December 5, was entered by Keith Terence Gemmell, aged 21. The police said that Gemmell and an uncle named Capner started from Auckland selling potatoes irom a motor-truck. At Cambridge they asked a widow to sell them two bales or wool from her farm, but, she would not agree. On their way back from Rotorua to Auckland, Gemmell said his uncle entered the widow's woolshed and stole the wool. The accused sold it to an Auckland firm for £ll, and handed the money to his uncle, who gave him £3. Gemmell served a term in a borstal institution for participation in the Auckland riots some years ago. Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., the Magistrate, remarked that although Gemmell was under the domination of a hardened criminal, he had sold the wool under another name. - He was admitted to probation for two years and ordered to make restitution. '
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22073, 22 April 1937, Page 16
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