MEAN THEFT BY YOUTH.
ROBBERY OF BENEFACTOR. COURT SUPPRESSES NAME. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] HAMILTON. Thursday. "A somewhat mean and contemptible theft," was the description given by Senior-Sergeant Sweeney, before Mr. F. W. Platts, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day, to an offence committed by a youth of 17, who admitted having stolen £5 from Albert Edward Groves. It was stated that accused told Groves, a fellow boarder, that he was unable to pay his board. Groves paid it for him.
During Groves' temporary absence from his room accused stole a £5 note from bis clothing, and was about to leave ou a train for the South when he was arrested. Accused was fined twice at Te Aroha last Saturday for theft. The senior sergeant said the youth's father considered a period in a Borstal institute would do him good. The magistrate admitted him to probation for 12 months, and ordered Ms name to be suppressed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20027, 17 August 1928, Page 15
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