WORKMAN ROBBED

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 187, 6 May 1931, Page 10

WORKMAN ROBBED

Young Australian’s Crime MOTHER’S PLEA “The accused and his brother, who have come from Australia, are regarded as very active thieves,” said Sub-Inspector Ward in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, during the hearing of a charge against Alan Joseph Samuel Flanagan, a labourer, aged 18, of haring stolen £5/7/6, the property of Michael Collins. Accused pleaded guilty. Sub-Inspector Ward said accused and his brother were seen leaving the men’s dressing-room at the premises of New Zealand Breweries in Molesworth Street on Monday afternoon. The youths were detained, and'a little later Collins, one of the workmen at the factory, found that £5/7/6 had been taken from a pocket of a pair of trousers, which was' found lying on the floor of the dressing-room. A small sum of money was found on accused, who said he bad hidden the rest In a pile of barley. The sum of £4 had been recovered, but some was still missing. Accused had been before the court in 1928, and he recommended a further period of detention in a Borstal institution. The accused’s mother pleaded with the magistrate to give her son another chance, as she was endeavouring to take him back-to Australia. The magistrate said he would grant a remand for a fortnight, in order to see if the lad’s mother could get him back to Australia. Intoxicated Motorist For having been intoxicated while in charge qf a motor-car in Willis Street on Monday night. Albert Hume, a signwriter, aged 53, was fined £2O and had his license suspended for 12 months by Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Remand to Auckland Augustiu William Sullivan, a salesman, aged 36, appeared on a charge of having at Epsom. Auckland, broken and entered the dwelling-house of Catherine Fanny Mortensen. On' the application of Sub-Inspector Ward, accused was remanded to appear at Auckland to-day.