POLICE COURT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19125, 17 September 1925, Page 13

POLICE COURT NEWS.

EMPLOYEE WHO ABSCONDED. * PROCEEDS OF A CHEQUE. SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT. 1 ' A list of previous convictions involving theft and false pretences was detailed by <■» Chief-Detective Cummings in the Police «v Court yesterday, when James Mowbray Arrol, aged. 37, pleaded guilty before Mr. ■T. W. Poynton, S-M., and Mr. W. J. Potter, J.P., to stealing £l2 in cash, a -* money order for £2 13s, and a cash book valued, at ss, the property of the ; , " Supplies (Company. •.v Detective Knight said that accused was ("recently employed by the company and was given a cheque t,o cash, as well as the money order to pay into tho firm's banking > account. Ho retained the money and ' f absconded to Wellington where he was iV; arrested. vs< Mr. Cummings said that accused's list commenced in 1920, when hft was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence on a charge of theft. In 1923 he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for false pretences and later in the same year he received 18 months' reformative deten- , < tion for theft.' • Accused was sentenced to six months' , v , imprisonment. - TO STAY IN AUCKLAND. Charges of drunkenness, breaches of a prohibition order and the terms of his !>< probation were preferred against William James Trainor, aged 27. It was stated that accused was admitted -i.il to probation for three years in 1922. Last , ; month he was fined £5 for theft and was piohibiled. -.7 Trainor, in asking for another chance, said he had work to go to at Whangarei, r. fc where he was employed by the Public :.m Works Department. He had tried to go straight, but had come to town and suf- • fered his. first lapse. "If you give me another chance I will go back. I think there is a boat to-day," he said. _., t "You will not go back to-day," said the magistrate. ''You will be sentenced to one month's imprisonment." I.i THEFT 'FROM A SCOW. A Maori, Dick Tainui, alias Tainui Ngakai, aged 33, admitted theft of a bag and contents, valued at £5 3s lid, the '■' property of Angus Mathieson. " 4 ' Constable Donnolly said the articles were removed from a scow lying alongside a wharf. Mr. Cummings said that Tainui received two months' imprisonment in 1911 for theft, and in 1920 he was sentenced " to three months on each of four charges of forging and uttering. A sentence of two months' imprisonment .was imposed. AN EMPLOYEE'S LAPSE. .Theft of postal notes and stamps valued "»t £lB 6s from his employer, Norman Grant, was admitted by Leonard James Monk. The chief-detective said that Monk explained he thought the postal notes were part of his wages and had accordingly appropriated them. An examination of showed ■ this was not so.- He was already on probation, but the present . », offence was committed before his sentence. Accused was released on the terms of pis present probation.