POLICE COURT NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 18

POLICE COURT NEWS

FAILURE TO ACCOUNT MAN PLACED ON PROBATION Remanded from Thursday for sentence on four charges of failing to account to Amburys, Limited, for sums of money, Samuel Walter Coad, aged 27, appeared before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. ' x;x Senior-Detective Hall said that the total sum involved was £l4 18s 6d. Restitution had not been made. The magistrate said that the probation officer's report was satisfactory. Accused would be admitted to probation for two years, special conditions being that he should make restitution of the full amount involved and that he should not, during the time of the probation, enter a racecourse or indulge in any form of gambling. > A domestic, Marjorie Joyce Ziegler, aged 20, appeared on remand on a charge of stealing £6 from Tony Vucich at Auckland on February 20. Accused, who was represented by Mr. Aekins, pleaded guilty. Sub-Inspector Fox said that the money had been stolen from Vucich's trouser pockets 4t a boarding house in Hobson Street. When accosted, accused admitted the offence,although she stated that the amount was only £5. She had spetat a large part of the taoney on clothing at a city store. The magistrate remanded accused for sentence until Tuesday, when a report from a female probation officer would be available. Bail was allowed.

A charge of stealing books valued at £4 10s, the property of the executors of the estate of the late Sydney Wectman, in August last, was brought against a youth, Russell Royden Beard v aged 17. Senior-Detective Hall said that the books had been taken from an unoccupied house and had been sold to a second-hand dealer. Despite his age, accused had a list of previous convictions. In appeared before the Supreme Court and was placed on probation for two years; while last month in the Magistrate's Court accused was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within six months.

Mr. McLiver, on behalf of Beard, entered a plea of guilty. Accused had been living in poor circumstances, but had recently, obtained a permanent position. He had been suffering from a misplacement of the spine Avliich was causing pressure on the brain and resultant periods of irresponsibility. At present he was responding well to treatment.

The magistrate said that in accused's own interests he must be placed under proper supervision. He would be sent to the Invercargill Borstal Institution for two years.