Magistrate’s Court

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 2, 3 January 1941, Page 10

Magistrate’s Court

THEFT CHARGES ADMITTED Pleading .guilty in tho Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday to 1 three charges of theft, Ronald Keir ; Duncan, a radio engineer and labourer, aged way committed to.the Buprejn© i Court-at Wellington for sentence... The charges were: On December .22, the i theft of a suitcase, suit, coat and vest, valued at £9, from Bertram John. Raynor, Union Street; on December 19, the theft of an electric iron, valued at £2 15s, the property of Mrs. Lillian Alice Jenkins, Fitzherbert Avenue; • and on i December 22, the theft of sports clothes,(valued at. £2 5s 6d. Messrs. G. , -M. Ransan and W. G. Ashworth,-JiP.’s w«fe :: oh- the Bench. ; Detective-Sergeant Meiklejohn- said ! he interviewed accused on December 29, i! 'arfd 1 -accused later made statements at L tb.e .police: station admitting the thefts, i He had committed them, ho said, when under the influence of liquor, and had , spent the money on drink. A Maori youth, aged 17, charged with

assaulting a girl aged seven near Palmerston North on Wednesday, was remanded to appear in the Children’s Court on January