THEFT OF TIMBER

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 24

THEFT OF TIMBER

Relief Worker Convicted WELLINGTON COURT CASES A relief worker who stole a quantity ot timber to make a wardrobe and a table for home was brought before Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Sub-inspector C. E. Roach, who conducted the police prosecution, asked that the value of the stolen timber, stated in the charge sheet as 9/-, should be amended to £1; after the man, Archibald Wilmot Newman, Hiad been arrested further timber had been found to have been taken. "He is pretty hard up, I understand," said the aiib-inspector, describing the man as a relief worker with two children. The probation officer confirmed this, adding that Newman was quite a decent kind of man. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence 1 if called on within 12 months. Suppression of his name was refused.: Stole Gold Links Within a few days of his adniissiou to probation for false pretences, Victor Frederick Weaver, a young man of 21, stole a pair of gold cuff links valued'at £3, the property-of Frauk Baker, and afterward sold- them to a second-hand dealer. Detective-Sergeant L. B. Revell,: who conducted the police prosecution, ex-; plained-that Baker, lived at a boarding--house, sharing a room with another man.' When Baker was absent one day at a party given by his room-mate Weaver took the opportunity to pocket the links. Weaver was sentenced to imprisonment for one mouth. False Pretence and Theft A scrap-metal buyer, Keith Elford Craig, aged 33, was charged with having

at Cartertlm obtained from one Robert Leith a quantity of scrap metal, valued at £l/4/-, by false pretence. A second charge was that at Linton, near Palmerston North. Craig stole the metal bearings from an engine. These bearings were valued nt £2O and were_the property of George Craw. Craig was remanded to appear at Palmerston North on April 10.

‘ A voting woman. Jaue Jamieson, was charged with the theft of a boy’s suit, valued at 28/G. and owned by Doreen E. Stout. Mrs. Stout went shopping, it was stated, and left the parcel on the counter of a store. Jamieson, who observed the incident, picked it up, telling the assistant it was hers. She was a young married woman with one child, and, said De-tective-Sergeant Revell, she had probably acted on a sudden impulse. “You mustbear the burden of your foolishness,” said the magistrate. He convicted her ajid ordered her to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.