SENTENCED FOR THEFT

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 83, 7 April 1936, Page 17

SENTENCED FOR THEFT

TWO AUCKLAND CASES

GAOL AND PROBATION

(By Talograpli—Picks Association.;

AUCKLAND, April 6.

A sentence of twelve months' imprisonment was passed in the Supreme Court on Harold James Lawrence for theft of £341 from Dalgety and Co., Ltd., at Whangarei.

Mr. Justice Fair said' although probation might be of assistance to the prisoner, to grant it would be doing a great deal of injury to others who found themselves in a similar position.

A young man who had had several years' service with the Tourist Department, Leonard Bruce Wright, was fined and admitted to probation on seven charges of theft as a servant. "This is another case of the type that has been coming before the Court rather frequently in the last few months," said his Honour, "where a young man has stolen money over a considerable period without any special pressure of circumstances compelling him to that course, but simply because the salary he was receiving was insufficient to meet his ideas of the pleasures he should indulge in. Even a young man must realise that such a course is likely to wreck his career." With considerable hesitation, his Honour said, he would admit the prisoner to probation for two years. He would also be ordered to make restitution of the total amount of money stolen and to. pay. a fine of £25 and the costs of the prosecution.