POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19040, 10 June 1925, Page 12

POLICE COURT NEWS.

CLUB MANAGER'S THEFT. PROBATION FOR TWO YEARS. "In view of tho probation officer's report, I think I would bo justified in putting the accused pnj probation for two years," said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, after hearing Mr. W. J. Campbell's report of the cenduct of Arthur Taylor, aged 52, who appeared for sentenco for the theft of £35 lis as manager of an Auckland social club.

Mr. Campbell said accused had lapsed once before, but ho had paid up. He had started drinking and gambling with bookmakers. His former employers were willing to retain th 4 services of his wife, but they stipulated that accused, must keep away from the club altogether. , Mr. Hunt: You mean that his first lapse did not result in a prosecution ? No. ' Probation' for two years was allowed, with the conditions that restitution should bo made within a year, and that accused should abstain from gambling and obtain a prohibition order. The fourth appearance for drunkenness within six months of Ernest Edward Cuthbertson Maxey, aged 44, also marked his fourth breach of a prohibition order. Maxey was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for being, drunk, and was convicted and discharged for procuring liquor. Charged with theft of £1 115s, William Thomas Ackerman, aged 36, was remanded untU next Wednesday for sentence.