THEFT BY YOUTH
DENIAL OF A STATEMENT.
A lad, 18 years of age, whose name ■ was ordered by the Magistrate (Mr. J. H. Salmon) to be suppressed, was prosecuted at Lower Hutt yesterday on a charge of stealing £111s 7d, from his former employers, Messrs. T. E. Sheil ■ and Son, garage proprietors. The principal evidence against the accused was ■ a statement he had signed in the pre-. V./sence of a constable admitting his ,> guilt. The accused, in ,the witness-box, while admitting his signature to the ■ statement denied the truth of the contents, and said that he did no know ■ the portion admitting ..his guilt_ was in •■ the.statement when he signed it. The Magistrate said that he could not ad- ■■ mit the boy.'s statement as against that \ of the" constable. It was impossible ..to believe that the constable, for the sake of sheeting home the charge, would de- . liberately forge the statement and afterwards deliberately perjure himself in the box. The charge was not a very '■' serious one, said his Worship. The seriouß side of the case was the perjury of the accused himself in the wit-ness-box. A fine of £3 and costs was imposed, Arandihe. lad-was, ordered to refund the stolen, money.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 133, 2 December 1926, Page 22
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202THEFT BY YOUTH Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 133, 2 December 1926, Page 22
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