CONVICTED OF THEFT.
THREE PREVIOUS CHANCES. “You seem to think that because the Court has been lenient to you in the past it will continue to be so,” commented Air J. L. Stout, S.AL, in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when Clifton John Towler, a storeman, aged 27, appeared before him on two charges of the theft of benzine, valued at 6s and 10s respectively, from his former employers, th.e Highways Transport Company, Ltd. Detective-Sergeant Bickerdike stated that accused was a married man with two children. He had had a key to the premises and had given away the benzine to another man in return for the use of his car. He had been before the Court on three previous occasions. “On each occasion he was given a chance,” stated the Magistrate in sentencing accused to fourteen days’ imprisonment on each charge, the terms to be cumulative.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 7 December 1936, Page 12
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146CONVICTED OF THEFT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 7 December 1936, Page 12
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