STOLE AND SQUANDERED £700 WITHIN A MONTH

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6851, 5 March 1929, Page 6

STOLE AND SQUANDERED £7OO WITHIN A MONTH

Seaman’s Holiday

LOST ALL BUT £lB IN BACKING HOUSES

OTHER PEOPLE’S SAVINGS,

Per Press Association

AUCKLAND, Last Night.

Bartholomew McHroy, described al a seaman and labourer, aged 21, was before Mr F. H. Levien, S.M., in tho Police Court to-day, charged with the theft of a suit case valued at £4 and 600 Cook’s 1 dollar coupons,’ of a total value of £l4O, the property of a seaman, Herman Cronin. Mcllroy was also accused of tho theft of a motor car valued at £350 two gramophones worth £23, an overcoat, and a gold watch. Ho was also called upon to answer four charges of the theft of P.O.S. Bank withdrawal slips and the theft of £475 in money. Mcllroy had been placed on probation three weeks ago. He went to stay at a boarding house, where Cronin stayed. He stole the 600 dollars also the bank notes and a bank book, drawing sums therefrom at close dates totalling £475. The watch and chain were stolen from a Union company’s steamer in port. The motor car, which he hired, ho sold to a grocer at Wada for £IOO cash. He lost all but £lB of this money at the races. Within one month, he squandered £7OO in gambling and racing and had no money left. On one of tho four summary charges, accused was sentenced to one year’s reformative detention and on .the indictablo charges, to which he pleaded guilty, he was committed to tho Supreme Court for sentence.