MAN AND WIFE
GAOL FOR RECEIVING
Ernest King, hairdresser and tobacconist, aged 41., of Adelaide Koad, and his wite, Maude Louise Pretoria King, aged 43, keeper of a fancy goods shop in Adelaide Road, were sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour and twelve months' reformative detention respectively on receiving charges connected with the Gregory case. There was one joint charge to which they had pleaded guilty, and each had admitted a separate indictable offence. Mrs. King has also to be sentenced on thirteen summary charges in the Magistrate's Court. Ten of the fifteen charges against her refer to the receiving of stolen' goods from Albert William Gregory, brother of Donald Henry Gregory. By herself Mrs. King received goods valued at £177- 18s. with her husband goods valued at £167 16s 3d, and King by himself received goods valued at £82 2s 6d. •Jr. G. C. Kent, speaking for King, said that the prisoner played a very little part in the actual physical re* ceiving of the goods, and the young man who sold the goods did not need much encouragement. The Chief Justice; (Sir Michael Myers): When a man of 50 becomes a "fence"—because that is what it amounts to —for goods stolen by a boy of 20 and certainly doesn't discourage further thefts, even if he doesn't encourage them, he is making the boy a confirmed criminal. Mr. J. Meltzer, for Mrs. King, said she had told Gregory to take the goods away, but he had told her to leave them there for the time being. It was something into which she slipped, rather than through any desire to receive stolen goods. His Honour: She did it more than once. Is she not charged with receiving goods from another person? Mr. Meltzer said that because of illhealth the prisoner had not had a single day's schooling, and it was suggested that she lacked the capacity to distinguish readily right from wrong. She was a very plastic tool in the hands of Gregory. His Honour said he was content to assume that Mrs. King, to some extent, had been under her husband's influence. There had been a business of receiving stolen goods carried on j—in police parlance, a "fence." They had not been impelled by necessity.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1943, Page 5
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MAN AND WIFE
Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 31, 6 February 1943, Page 5
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