BLIND MAN ROBBED
OFFENCES ADMITTED YOUTH GIVEN PROBATION Pleas of guilty were entered by a labourer, Ronald Lewis Gunning, aged 17 (Mr. Noble), when ho appeared before Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday on charges of stealing £4 and £1 10s from Ross Gloeson Cooper. According to the police, Cooper was totally blind and accused assisted him in the sale of tea.
In a statement to the police, which was read in Court, accused said ho had taken £1 10s from a registered letter which Cooper gave him to post. He had removed the £4 in £1 notes from a drawer in Cooper's home. The smaller sum had been spent on skating, sweets and tobacco, while part of the £4 10s had been used to hire a car and to provide benzine. Ho had also spent some money in taxi fares and in paying for friends at skating rinks. After adjourning the case briefly to receive a report from tho probation oflicer, the magistrate placed accused on three years' probation. Accused was also ordered to make restitution within six months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23084, 8 July 1938, Page 16
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