IN THE COURTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11383, 8 December 1930, Page 5

IN THE COURTS

COUNTY CLERK’S THEFT OF £846.

ABOUT TO LEAVE WIFE FOR ANOTHER WOMAN.

TWO YEARS’ REFORMATIVE

(U.P.A. bv Elec. Tell Copyright) NELSON, Dec. 6: ’ Gilbert Owen EUifS, •< formerly clerk to the .Collingwood County Council,;, who pleaded, guilty to , the theft of £846 J4s 2d, the property of the council, was sentenced in the Supreme Court to-day to two years’ detention for reformative purposes. 1 ■.. - -i. —'• His Honor said -that apparently prisoner-for some time had been taking sums' of money, .-from - the council and that he then determined to make • u coup. Ht was carefully, thought, out.. He had. coldly, and callously; decided to desert .Ins wife and with the proceeds of . the money to go off to' America, wtih . another woman. I The ffact was discovered by a letter written by the prisonerto the woman wjjich had faljen into the hands of , the police.

ALLEGED SHOPLIFTER RE-

MANDED

(Press' Association.)

CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 5. _ Described by the police as one or the “professional unemployed,” Leo Robert : Clark, 22. a painter, was remanded this; morning - to/appear on Monday on,a charge, of stealing Goods valued at 2s 6d the. property of Woolworths■ Ltdv.-' .. ■'./ „• . »(There is lio excuse for- the offence" said 'Chief Detective Carfqll. y. “He pi ended,, poverty on liis ; arrest, hut when searched: £64 9s lOd was found in 'his possession.”;, ; .<T. - . ... . “There is,too much shoplifting going on',”: said .the Magistrate, -Mr. H.P; Lnwty, during the .hearing .of the case. s