YOUTH ON THEFT CHARGES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 117, 12 February 1944, Page 9

YOUTH ON THEFT CHARGES

'He has a b-.d record for his age,” said Detective-Sergeant J. Thompson, in tlie Magistrates’ Court. Wellington, yesterday, of Thomas Bason, labourer, 10, appearing on three charges of theft in Wellington and Levin. Mr. Stout, S.M., remanded accused till Monday to enable inquiries to be made. Ou the first charge lie was stated to have been boarding in Wellington and when he left to have taken a suit of clothes worth £5. a suitcase valued at £1 and £4/7/(> in cash with him, all (he property of Frederick Norman Lueer. The second charge related to Ihe theft of a pair of shoes, worth £2, and belonging to Samuel Morgan, from a boardinghouse iu Levin, where accused had stayed. It was stated he also took £2 from a child’s money-box there, but justices of the peace has already dcalf \i_ilh him on (hat charge. The theft of £7/1-l/G. belongin ' to Edna Muriel Koyal, Leviu.i.jvas I lie tl-.iid charge. It. was stated that accused was given money Io pay accounts hut settled only one and kept the rest of the money.