DRIVEN TO CRIME.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9766, 3 April 1914, Page 3

DRIVEN TO CRIME.

IN" ORDER TO SEK DYING WIKK. fPll VZtM A MOOTATION.t ' AUCKLAND. April 2. ) "This man had a sick wife who was I dying in Auckland and ho ««s in Aralaim j without money, and coiiM'quon'Jy h>> was | driven lo tliis not in order to got away to 'see hi., wife, who has since died." Such ! was tlie pitiful tragedy told in a ecntcnoo i by Chicf-Doteetivo McMahon when a man I of 35 years admitted a chnr-ie in the Police I Court this morning that at Arapatn on i February 18 he obtained £3 Os rjd from I Michael MoOreal by means of a valueless cheque. '"1 ho man was i-< dire m> ntnl j stress." continued the detective. "Ho was j without money when lv got wont tJiat his • wife was dying in Auckland, and lie had ;ro raise the. money necessary lo get to I Auckland. Mo tendered a cheque to the landlord of the place where he was staying and got it cached. Il w;is subsequently found that the cheque was vahielox. but beforo the i«suo of the warrant for hii j>r- "•'.-; it hccanio know . lo him and 1;" sea! £1 to McGreal and notified him tlint lie would make good (he rest of the money as soon as he could There is nothing in the nature of a previous offence ngain c t liini |and his character i< good.'' "Even a j good end cannot a wrong r.ct."' commented Mr Cut-ten. S.M.. "but I sutmoso \ the man has been sufficiently puuishod by! being brought here, lie will he convicted and ordered to come up for s<>nfenco when I called on, under the condition that he settles up by repayment of the money." I —ii " " l -."- - %