THE BAKERS ACCOUNTS.

NZ Truth, Issue 252, 23 April 1910, Page 6

THE BAKERS ACCOUNTS.

Brownie Bagged.

Christchurch has been remarkable of late I for the number of young fellows who have stepped over the threshold of crime and faced the Magisterial bench on some charge or another. The circumstance is the more deplorable m a city which considers it sinful to water the streets on.--the Sabbath, and starts its ordinary avocation with prayer. James Hiron, a local baker, has had had luck with the [ young men on his carts. One youth last week was ordered by Magistrate iiishop to pay back a sum of money received from customers, and escaped gaol on that { understanding. Remarkable to relate, his successor on the cart pursued tbe same] game, and found himself m gaol. He is a curly-headed youth named Ernest Cecil: Brawnie, the sum of his sinfulness being £9 Is 4d, which he cut a dash with, instead, of handing it over to his boss. Many ! people pay the baker's rounds-man, andi when the rounds-man forgets to hand over I the cash there is always a row. There ! was a row about Cecil's unauthorised ! borrowings, and he pleaded guilty to the i ' theft before Magistrate Bailey. Lawyer Moseley mentioned to the Court ; the intense respectability of Cecil, who | had been m good employment with Simpson and Williams, amongst other firms. Counsel attributed the present series of lapses to bad company, and said the jfoung man. desired to pay off his m- j debtedness by instalments. Chief-Detective Bishop mentioned that Brownie had cleared out to braw Dunel din. Mr Moseley acknowledged this, but rc- | marked " that, when arrested, the accused i had a ticket for Ohristcnurch about his ! clothes. The young man's father, manager for A. J. White's, was 'well known ! and respected. ; Cecil was convicted and . ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, , and as he was capable of earning £2 5s | per week, he must pay back the stolen i cash at the rate of £1 a week.