MAGISTRATE’S COURT

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3615, 16 September 1927, Page 9

MAGISTRATE’S COURT

CHARGE OP THEFT. Thomas Yates alias Williams, a labourer, of no flxed place of abode, appeared before Messrs. J. Slipper and H. J. Canton, J’s P„ in the Magistrate’s Court ‘' yesterday morning, charged with the theft of one razor and one alarm clock of a total .value of £1 13s 6d, the property of Leo Francis Dunne. On being asked how Ire pleaded, accused replied that he would plead guilty to the theft of tho clock, and from what he had heard he supposed he must have taken the razor also.. • Senior-Detective Quirkc stated that accused had been drinking in the Pailway Hotel, Palmerston North, entire sixth ,of this month when, the articles had been taken. Yates had only been out of gaol twelve weeks after a term of imprisonmnt for theft at Woodville. .. . On being asked If he had anything to say accused replied: “I would like to ask for a chance your Worship I hardly remember taking the clock, I was so drunk at the time.” • - The Bench; “You should keep .off the drink.” , ■, , , ... Senior-Detective Quirke: The accused must have known what ho was doing because he sold tho clock afterwards to a secondhand dealer under an assumed name. After consideration the Bench stated that, taking into account accused’s long list of previous convictions, he would be sentenced to ono month’s Imprisonment with hard labour. ’