GAOL FOR HIS GOOD
PARENTS WITHHOLD BAIL [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 15. Wlicii Godwin Percival Glenn, aged thirty, an electrician, was arrested on a charge of theft, his parents lodged enough money with his counsel to bail him out. They requested counsel not to use the money, however, as they considered that a short period in gaol would be for accused’s good. Accused had asked the loan of a clarinet from a man from whom ho had rented a room, hut did not go back again. He offered to trade in the instrument at a. music shop as part payment for a. new instrument. The salesman would not hear of this, but allowed him to take the new instrument away for the night on condition that the left the old one as securitv. Accused did not put in an appearance next day. and was arrested in Christchurch. Ho had previously been sentenced for dishonesty. The Magistrate said he would give accused another chance. He would he convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months.
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Evening Star, Issue 20150, 15 April 1929, Page 8
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182GAOL FOR HIS GOOD Evening Star, Issue 20150, 15 April 1929, Page 8
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