THEFT OF MONEY

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1938, Page 7

THEFT OF MONEY

The theft of £10 in money, the pro« perty of P. Burke and Co., was admitted by Edward Wilfred Kirk, labourer, aged 23, 'when he appeared before Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M.,\in the Upper Hutt Court yesterday. He also pleaded guilty to a charge that being a person convicted of theft he trespassed on a racecourse. '

Detective F. N.'' Robinson said that on January 18 the defendant was employed by Burke and Co., the caterers at Trentham, in the pie stall. He was given £10 in silver and told to change it for £5 notes. He changed the money and kept it. So far £5 had been recovered, and it was expected that the remainder would be recovered today.

Kirk said\he did not know he/was forbidden to go on'racecburses

Mr. Hewitt said that as the. disqualification 'was automatic it was understandable that Kirk might, not know anyting about, it. He had been convicted and discharged;on two previous occasibns, and this time he would be given a fine he would remember, v

Kirk was fined £10, and was allowed a month in which to find the money. On the' charge of trespassing on the racecourse he was convicted and discharged. ;