WAYWARD WOODWARD.

NZ Truth, Issue 265, 23 July 1910, Page 7

WAYWARD WOODWARD.

Poles a Purse While on Bail.

One of these days a man may be ableto. P*^k ttp a Bmsedin newspaper -wlihoufc cwmsng across the naoie of fcidward Michael Wood ; but for some time past he has been Mowing m asd out of 1 the local I'solice Court* at aj -great r &te- In the/first,: piace he "was dealt with on Juno 2:7, m comjpAny with, another lad Rained Joseph Sutherland, tot. a number o'i charges of" breaking and entering and theft, and, after pleading guilty, ,was committed to the Supreme Court for sanfbence. Then it was necessary for bum to appear as a witness aga&nst Eraest Au@us'tjLti: Corlesy, who is ftt present awattiiiig trial on a charge of receiving good's fror/i Wood and Sutherland. The two lads -were let out on light bail, and were called upon to visit the Rev. Axelsen daily, wMcb they did. But Wood, was unfortunate. He had ooc&siou to go ivp to the house of one AtnjstKottg m North-East ."Valley, on July 8, att»l m o«ier to find the house he called at the residence- of Mrs liva Barlow to inqsire. Wood arrived about & pjn., and just a short! time previously. Mrs Barlow had come home from town. Shecarried her purse (containin^i £10 m gold), m her hand, and while opening the door, left tftte parse on the windowsSlV forgetting to lilt it when she entered the Itouse. "Wood saw the purse, and at oaee raacfeit his own, but shortly after b&ving directed the lad to Armstrong's Mrsf Barlow remembered her; pnrse, and at once set the police 6n the track. On Jnly 9 'Tec. Ward Interviewed iWood, tart; fch» only, effects m his pockote consisted of seven, penny stamps and a tram ticket. Wood, however, took the 'tec. to a pSecc of liarsh on the Queen's Drive and showed where he had planted seven sovereigns, explaining! that; two cf the goldies had been given to Sutherland.

Wood pleaded p,«.U f»y , through Mx B. S. Irwin, ttofor© Magistrate Widdowson, last week, and was committed for sentence.