GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 195, 13 May 1924, Page 9

GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE

FALSE PRETENCES WHILE DRUNK.

Through circulating plausible stories, chiefly the result of his insobriety a middle-aged labourer, Andrew Mart" l Carroll, found himself before Mr. U. R Orr-Walker, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on two charges of false pretences- . Chief-Detective Kemp said that accused had obtained £2 12s. 6d. by falselv representing that he had a quantity of cigarettes for sale, and had attemptid to obtain £4 by a similar story. Drink was the cause of his downfall, and at the time the offences were committed he was on a drinking bout. He had two children, and when sober was a very good worker. , . Glancing at accused’s list, the Magistrate remarked that false pretences seemed to be the man’s weakness. Mr. P. Keesing, in asking for leniency. stated that with his client tho invariable result of a drinking bout was the narration of rather plausible stories. If given a chance he would leave for the country and keep away from liquor. The Magistrate decided to give the man another chance on those conditions. On the first charge he was admitted to probation for three years, and on the second he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon in twelve months. “If you get drunk you break the terms of your probation,” warned the Magistrate, “and that means that you will be dealt with on the original charges.”