GIRL’S THEFT FOR MAN

Hawera Star, Volume LI, 13 September 1930, Page 5

GIRL’S THEFT FOR MAN

V AGABOND GETS GAOL.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Sept. 12. The story of a young girl who had given him small sums of money to assist a man who had been dismissed from his employment because of laziness, and who eventually stole a gold wristlet watch and gave it to him to pawn, was told in the Police Court today. The man, Joseph Mallis, alias Hicks, a labomer aged 21, was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment on a charge of being a rogue and a vagabond in that he had insufficient lawful means of support. The girl, whose name was suppressed, was admitted to probation for two years. * Sub-Inspector Lopdell said that Mallis was of the larrikin type and had created disturbances at dances. He had not been working for some time. A girl with whom he was acquainted had given him various sums of money from time to time and eventually she stole a watch and gave it to him to pawn, with permission to keep the money. i Rub-Inspector Ward, chief detective, said flint the accused girl was 19 years of age. Both she and her parents were of good character. She was employed as a typiste in July last. She was a member of a hockey team at Karori Park, and while there she stole a wateli from the clothes of another girl iu the dressing shed.