YOUNG MAN’S DOWNFALL
THEFT OF OVERCOATS fPa* Umttsd Press Association.] WELLINGTON, July 17. Pleading guilty to five charges of stealing overcoats and one charge of receiving a stolen ovei’coat, William Norman Paine, aged 23, was to,day sentenced by Mr Mosley, S.M., to four months’ imprisonment. It was stated that one of the thefts was committed on tho same day that the accused was bailed out on a charge of drunkenness and resisting the police, for which he served a month’s imprisonment. . In mitigation it was urged that he had an unblemished record till these offences. He was' a young man who had done well till thrown out of work owing to the firm he served changing hands. Drink and bad associations on his return to Wellington were stated to be the cause of his trouble. The probation officer, however, said that the accused seemed to snap his fingers at the court. He could not recommend probation, but if the accused had been under 23 he would have suggested tho Borstal.
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Evening Star, Issue 22083, 17 July 1935, Page 10
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