PROBATION FOR THEFT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18939, 10 February 1925, Page 12

PROBATION FOR THEFT.

■- "EXCEPTIONAL TREATMENT." CONSIDERATION FOR FAMILY. " You are being exceptionally well treated, and we are straining the Probation Act to breaking point," said Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., in the Police Court, yesterday, to Harry Taylor, who appeared for sentence on a charge of fraudulently failing to account for £3 5s to A. A. Brown, thereby committing theft. Senior-Detective Ward said accused was married and had four children, ranging from four and a-half years of age to three days. Accused pleaded for a chance or for a remand until his wife was discharged from hospital. He said he had no one to look after the children and if he was sent to gaol the shock to his wife would have a serious effect. He was unable to work hard because of two operations he had : had. Accused ww making his fourth appearance before the Court, stated the magistrate. To commit the offences under such circumstances only aggravated the position and he was bringing his children into disgrace. Two years' probation would be allowed only on account of his wife and children and the poor girl who had lost her money. Restitution was ordered.