YOUTH’S LAPSE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12904, 3 July 1936, Page 3

YOUTH’S LAPSE

THEFT OF GOODS. 1 I I A nineteen-year-old youth, Fred-j crick Thomas Cade, appeared bet ore j § Mr E. L. Walton, S.M., in the Mag- ! 1 jstrate's Court yesterday and plead?! 1 | guilty to the theft at He Karat a on j | June 27 of a silver watch, a cigarette • 1 lighter and a knife, of the total valno | of £3/5/-, the property of John Hill, j I Sergeant Campagnolo. who prose-. § euted, said that the accused is a | station hand employed by Mr Alien , 1 at Wnipnoa station. Ho called at M> , j Hill's place at Kanakanaia in the evening, stopped there for a time, ami j then slept there. W hen Mr Hill anr-w | in the morning he found the. goods missing. lie reported the tact t ( > Constable Grcggan. who interviewe l : j accused. Accused denied the theft, j j but. on a. search being made, the con- j | stable found the goods and accused j then admitted that he had stolen j i them. ’There was no need for llie’j theft for, when arrested, he had £3 j in his possession. Mr Allan had .n limated t.hat. he would be prepared:

to take the accused back into Ins employ. Continuing, Scrgl. Catnpagno’.u said the accused bad been below Inc Children’s Court in duly, 193-1. on four charges ol thelt, and had been placed under the care ot the Child Welfare Officer for two years. That, term did not expire until the cud ol this month.

The magistrate convicted accused and ordered him lo conic up lor sentence if called upon within two years. He was also ordered to pay poli-'O expenses.