REMANDED FOR SENTENCE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 300, 19 September 1928, Page 18

REMANDED FOR SENTENCE

THEFTS FROM SHOW BUILDING. Vcscribed by Detective-Sergeant Holmes as a man who had been licquently interviewed regarding dishones actions, Bertie Deni, a motor-driver, aged 30, appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to three charges ot theft. According to Mr. Holmes, accused obtained employment at the new \v intel Show building, where .the thefts were committed. He stole a Ruantity ol nails valued at 15s. and 'ju’u took au overcoat (valued al £4) which had been left in a motor-car in the basement of the building. Subsequent to this he took some timber :uul had asked a eairier to deliver some bundles of it to an address in Epuni Street. Six hundred and four superficial leet ot Umber weie taken, the value being £L. is. All tin. stolen property had been recovered. In asking that accused might be -ranted the benefits ol probation, Mr W. E. Leicester submitted there had not been a systematic series of thefts. lie contended that lhe smallness ot accused s means had driven him to commit the acts of dishonesty. 'l’lie Magistrate remanded accused fol sentence until this morning, Pundnig a report from the probation ollieci (Mi. >r. p. Mills).