THEFT OF VEGETABLES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19141, 6 October 1925, Page 12

THEFT OF VEGETABLES.

— —- MAN SENT TO GAOL. Several charges of theft of vegetables from gardens of Chinese were admitted by William Henry Willcocks in the Onehunga Police Court yesterday. Sergeant J. A. Cruickshank said that accused took the vegetables a filer tfaa Chinese had loaded them up overnight, to take into town in the morning. At last two constables caught him in the act, and he had admitted his offence s»t once. There were 27 previous convictions, dating back to 1902, and he was now out on license after a conviction in 1918, when he was sentenced to imprisonment and reformative detention. The Rev. Jasper Caldor, Auckland city mission er, said that accused was industrious when under strict control, but when he was out he was absolutely irresponsible. He was sot vicious, and was a kind father to his seven children. He had a good wife, who endeavoured to keep him straight, but ho always broke orit again after a time. The magistrate. Mr. McKean, pointed out that with any conviction accused's license would be automatically cancelled, but he could not let him run loose. WilVcocks was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, to be followed by three years' reformative detention.