NO PARENTAL GUIDANCE
A SALESMAN'S LAPSE,
The recent disappearance of material from James Smith's; Ltd., was related m the Magistrate's Court to-day when a. draper's assistant, 21 years of a^e Wilfred Albert Wootton, pleaded guilty to the theft of 23 yards of material, valued at £3 17s 3d.
According to, Chief-Detective Kemp the accused, who was a salesman in the cotton department, had on one occasion measured off an extra, length of material to a customer, and then called upon the customer later to obtain the excess material. On another occasion, at his request, a customer had unwittingly left the stolen material in a parcel at premises in the city where the accused later picked it up. Making a plea -for leniency on behalf of the accused, Mr. W. E. Leicester said that for some years the accused had been fending for himself at an age when he was in need of parental guidance, and that guidance had been lacking. He had also been singularly unfortunate in his choice of companions. liato hours and indiscriminate drinking •brought about his downfall," declared counsel.
The Magistrate remanded the accused for sentence till to-morrow, pending the report of the Probation Officer
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 26, 30 July 1924, Page 8
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198NO PARENTAL GUIDANCE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 26, 30 July 1924, Page 8
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