ADMISSION OF THEFT
PRISON FOR YOUNG MAN Dominion Special Service.
I almcrston North, September 30. ’I m afraid there is very little to say in favour of this young man," said SeniorSergeant VVhitehouse in the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court this morning, when reading a list of previous convictions against Alfred George Gurney. Gurney, J/ 10 Is «5 years of age, appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., pleading guilty to the theft on April' 20, of £2, the property of George Toms.
The Senior-Sergeant stated that accused was always getting money from his aged grandmother, which he did not put to the best of purposes. Accused told the Magistrate that two years ago he returned to his home in Wanganui, after a spell of reformative detention. and had been unable to obtain and brothers, he said, had made things so unpleasant that he had left home again. Beyond his grandmother not a sou! would help him. ’ “Will you give me a chance? I’ll go up to my uncle’s farm, asked the accused. The Magistrate: I don’t think so. I think you II go to. goal for two months.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 5, 1 October 1929, Page 6
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188ADMISSION OF THEFT Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 5, 1 October 1929, Page 6
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