CASH TILL ROBBED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 12 August 1929, Page 10

CASH TILL ROBBED.

"SOME SERIOUS FEATURES."

ACCUSED GRANTED PROBATION. [BY TELEGRAPH.- —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON, Sunday. "Your caso presents some scrions features, and lias given me, grave thought," said Mr. Wyvcrn-Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court yesterday, when admitting Vaudrey Burton, aged 22, garago proprietor, Hamilton, to three years' probation on a chargo of robbing a cash register of £8 in cash and a cheque lor £2, in a Rotorua shop on Wednesday.

Evidence that accused had been a youth of good character and an able, sober and conscientious worker, was givon by Mr. E. N. Valintino, with whom accused had been employed for five years. Tho magistrato said there seemed to bo a tendency in accused's family to take things which did not belong to them. Considerable cunning seemed to havo been employed in the thefts. The plea of financial stress could not be put forward in accused's case, for his boons showed that his liabilities amounted to £95, and his assots to £393. Tho offence was one of deliberate theft.

After warning accused of tho responsibility which rested on liim to keep straight tho magistrate passed sentence. Restitution of the stolen money was ordered.