KISSING FOR WEEKS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 148, 25 June 1935, Page 11

KISSING FOR WEEKS

MAN GOES ASTRAY

(By Telegrapli-rPress Association.) , CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The story of a man who left his home in Auckland to go on a weekend fishing trip and at last found himselfj in Timaru was told to Mr; E. C. Leyvey, SM.,in the Magistrate's Court today, when John Daintry Campbell Birch, aged 37, described as a clerk, of Monaghan Avenue, Auckland, was charged with obtaining, sums totalling £16 and failing to pay them to Muriel Wallace, thereby committing theft. He pleaded guilty. ■ '■■ ' ■ ■'■ The police said the complainant was a milk vender, who had employed the accused to collect accounts, but in March last the accused went off ,on the complainant's bicycle one day, and failed to return.

Counsel lor the defence said that the accused was ' a married man. ■ His position in Auckland was a good one. He left his home there in March'to go fishing, and ' eventually reached Christchurch, and had.then no recollection of his, past history. •■ Later his wife reported him as missing. It was not until he was in Timaru that he came to himself. Counsel suggested that the whole thing was due to a lapse of memory. ..:,...

The accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon and to make restitution in fourteen days. '

After listening to counsel, the Magistrate, in passing sentence, said' they had to do all they could to help in such cases. .