CLERK SENT TO PRISON

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 291, 8 September 1928, Page 5

CLERK SENT TO PRISON

THEFT FROM MEDICAL STFDENT. Attributing his lapse to temptation, j George Fisher, a clerk, pleaded guilty J in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday to stealing a gold watch and chain, valued at £l2 10s., the property of Frederick ‘ Plirnmer Furkert. . Chief-Detective Ward stated that on ; July 3. a medical student at the Public Hospital left a gold watch and chain on • the drossing table in his room in the house surgeons’ quarters. Later, he discovered that it had been taken. Ihe theft was reported, and tne stolen property was recovered in a second-hand dealer's shop, where it had been pawned. At the time of the theft accused was sell- ■ ing stockines. and had permission to visit - the hospital premises, but had no right to ”O to the house ■mrgeons’ quarters. ’ Accused, added Mr. Ward, was at pro- ■ sent on probation for false pretenses. “Thp only thing 1 ertn wny is that I was fortinted.” exnlained noeused, who ■ said that he was out of work. j, A sentence of four months imprisonmeat was imposed. ’ Jir t