THEFTS ADMITTED

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24104, 24 October 1941, Page 3

THEFTS ADMITTED

CLERK ON PROBATION The theft of £lO from Charles Hasley Wyatt on August 14 and the attempted theft of £5 2s 6d from Rosaline Kingham on October 14 were admitted by Richard White, clerk, aged 23. when he appeared before Mr. J. Morling, S.M.. yesterday. Detective-Sergeant Nalder said that, with a companion, accused had gained the confidence of Wyatt, a soldier about to go overseas, and undertook to change some of his New Zealand money into Australian currency. On receiving two £o notes from Wyatt they had disappeared. When found, accused admitted the offence but refused to disclose tho name of his companion who, he said, was a married man with two children. Posing as tho secretary of an association of unions which did not exist, accused had also attempted to obtain £5 2s 6d from Mrs. Kingham, alleging that her son had authorised him to collect the money. "Ho has quite a long list for a young man of 23," said Mr. Nalder. Accused had arrived in New Zealand from Sydney as a stowaway in 1939, and had a criminal record in Australia and New Zealand. In August, 1940, when he appeared on three charges of theft, accused was sentenced to IS months' reformative detention and three years' probation. After six months he was.released. so that he committed the latest offences while on probation. j Accused was sentenced to two years' reformative detention.