THEFT OF SUITCASES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22909, 11 December 1937, Page 20

THEFT OF SUITCASES

TWO YEARS' PROBATION

MAN WITH LARGE FAMILY

"His position is a desperate one, and I think if he was sent to prison it would be very hard on his wife and children," said the probation officer, Mr. J. Anderson, when Herbert Samuel Hino (Mr. Norris), charged with the theft of eight suitcases and their consents/ appeared on summons in the Police Court, before Mr. C. It. Orr Walker, S.M., yesterday. Detective-Sergeant McHugh said a Queqn Street business man allowed his customers to leave their cases on his premises .while they were shopping. Accused was caught stealing one, and later admitted taking the others. Any food in the cases had been eaten, and tho other articles burned. The cases had all been recovered, but £5 9s 3d restitution was required. Mr. Norris said accused was worried over i money matters. He received a military pension and had been on sustenance. He had a wife and seven children, ranging in ago from two weeks to ten years. "He has kept away from trouble for four years," said the magistrate, referring to accused's previous conviction, ? r and I am, prepared to extend probation to him for two years." Restitution by small payments was ordered.