THEFT BY TWO YOUTHS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20465, 17 January 1930, Page 14

THEFT BY TWO YOUTHS.

SENTENCE OFv,PROBATION. RESTITUTION ORDERED. The two cousins, Gilbert Archibald Penman, aped 17, grocer's assistant, and Harry Kinnear Pago, aged 17, salesman, who were arrested on the steamei Ulimaroa at Wellington last Friday and charged in the Police Court at Auckland on Monday with (he theft of £42 from William Chesney, appeared for sentence yesterday before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. The magistrate had remanded both accused in custody to secure a report from the probation officer. He ordered thai, they should be kept apart from other prisoners. Mr. Glaister, who appeared for the accused, said that although recognising the serious nature of the offence, ho would ask that they should be granted probation. The boys themselves realised that they had been guilty of despicable conduct. They both came from estimable homes, and' their parents would arrange restitution privately. "I have two alternatives," saul the magistrate. "I can send them to the Borstal Institute oj place them on probation. I remanded them so that they could see where they were heading. t have decided to place them on probation for two years, and I wtont the probation to be strict! They will have to make restitution." Mr. Glaister asked for suppression of the names, but the magistrate refused, stating that.they had already been given publicity throughout the Dominion.