FOUND PURSE AND SPENT THE CONTENTS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 March 1938, Page 4

FOUND PURSE AND SPENT THE CONTENTS.

YOUNG MAN CHARGED WITH THEFT. Pleading guilty to the theft of a purse valued at 2s (id and £5 Os 2d, the property of Nurse McKee, a young man named Douglas Parsonson was committed to probation for twelve months by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., when he appeared in the Levin Court yesterday. He was also ordered to return the money immediately. Constable F. Baker told the Court that when Nurse McKee left her car in Oxford Street on March 11th, about S p.m., she dropped her purse. It contained a £5 note, two pennies and an art lunion ticket. (She informed the police and advertised for it, but no trace of the purse could be found. As a result of certain information, Constable Hereof interviewed Parsonson, who admitted finding the purse. He had changed the £5 note at Manakan and spent some of the money, having £2 10s and some silver when accosted. Parsonson had no dependents, and had £4OO in a banking account. He could not understand under these circumstances why he had retained the purse, but no attempt had been made to find the owner through the police. His Worship then committed Parsonson to probation as stated above.