PILLAGING OF CARGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 13

PILLAGING OF CARGO.

THEFTS BY WATERS IDER. FOURTEEN DAYS IN -PRISON. Foui' charges of pillaging cargo mi the r wharves were admitted by Charles Harold* Watson,' age-d--28/ waterside worked f (Mr;' Sullivan), in the Police. Court yesterday.. The goods stolen included.a box of cigars; a pair of men's boots and a piees of ht>rg<V/;. . :s iho total value being £5 lis. the property, of the New Zealand Shipping Company,' and, a wallet, valued ai .12 6d, the property of some person unknown, .Detective Mcllugh said- aecui ed's room , , was': searched : fc'Hlie 'result;- ofyaitHpiairitl/ and the serge and other tilings were found there, Fi.riher inquiries traced to «: his possession the remaining articles stolen. ,fif Chicf-Det-c. tive Cummings said 'accused 1 / bad been employed .on the wh.'u f for .some lime, attd Ihe thefts extended from last September. He Jiad ■removed the articles from ships on which he Was employed. He had a good record on the waterfront, and, , his. , wages from last yoptembor, aTOfaged''l74-TOd; l a' week. eluded three \Veeks when he was 'out-'of;" work. In some weeks .he had earned as., much as 'll.l. ~t" oi,ieJ>,sai<3:mfc,,,tHo,.: cased had appeared bofo;-o the ('.mri on a" charge involving dishonesty: He asked tho Couit to if hat nmnptation was placed in the way.-of. iwm" on "the < waterfront, all-hough they wnr( in positions of trust, "I know_.it has Ivcn . almost an unwritten .law , in, this .Court that men working on the watc front who came here should not get --probation, I '' --f MiJ Sullivan' added/ "hut cifses' from' there are now few,and far between." r • The, .Rev. Jasper, Cakler said It:* had known accused and bis? family for ,111 years. Not one had Over been in trouble before, and the young man's present disgrace was keenly-Jelt had been 1 dunking recently, but had now ened up. , Ho thoilghfc ~ aceui|Qd ,^wouid , benefit from a heavy fine and a'term of probation is suggested by counsel,; _ fl In imposing a sentence of Mi days'; imprisonment, on one charge and admitting accused Ut probation, on , anpfchify. o>o, ~ K magistrate, Mr. Poynton, said he, would be glad to consider a fine, but the repeated thefts showed accused's dis-s ntZ~ 1, A.MfJ