MOTHER'S MONEY STOLEN.
YOUTH'S SAD LAPSE. [BX TELEGRAPH.OWN CORRESPONDENT.] • " HAMILTON,, Monday. The theft , of £16 from the savings of his mother and brother was admitted by a youth named William Frederick Wood head in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day. * ' Senior-Sergeant Matthew stated v that the youth had been out of work for some time, an|d hjad often 'come home the worse for liquor. He had helped himself to £16 from a box in his mother's bedroom. . ' , * ' . On defendant's behalf, Mr. F. W. x Sullivan said that the youth never had a fair chance, having left school when 1 he was in the , Second Standard.. There was more than £16 in the box, but he had contented himself with this amount. Woodhe&d was placed cn probation for two years and ordered to'make restitution, ' and to abstain from alcoholic liquor. „' ■ 4 —■ 1 =
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18585, 18 December 1923, Page 10
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