CITY POLICE COURT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23006, 8 October 1936, Page 2

CITY POLICE COURT

Wednesday, October 7 (Before Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M.) A FURTHER CHANCE Leslie Jack Gould, 18 years of age, who had previously been convicted on a charge of unlawful conversion of a moto? car, appeared for sentence.—Remarking that the accused was only a youth who had evidently got into the wrong company, the magistrate agreed to give him another chance and admitted him to probation for 12 months TWO YEARS' PROBATION Joseph Meek, aged 33, appeared for sentence on two charges of theft. —Mr J. G. Warrington, who represented the .ccused, said that the latter was. definitely not of the criminal type, and, as a matter of fact, had not the intelligence to be a successful criminal He had been drinking when the offences were committed, and had simply frittered away the money he had stolen. He had never previously been in trouble, and counsel asked the court to take cognisance of the facts and extended to him the benefits of probation.—After perusing the probation officer's report, the magistrate said that it bore out what had been said by Mr Warrington. He was the type of individual who would easily get into bad company and be preyed on, and in the circumstances he would be admitted to probation for two years, a special condition being that he does not visit Dunedin unless by special permission of the probation officer. THEFT OF BICYCLE • lan Williamson, aged 19. for whom Mr J. G. Warrington appeared, pleaded guilty to having stolen a bicycle valued at £2 10s, the property of John Michael Ryan.—Outlining the facts, Chief Detective Young stated that between 7.30 p.m. and midnight on September 9 the complainant's cycle was stolen from a right-of-way in Moray place. As a result of inquiries b: the police it was found that the accused had removed the machine and taken it to the shop of a second-hand dealer. When interviewed, he at first said that he had got the cycle from a man at Alexandra, but later admitted having stolen it.—Mr Warrington said that the accused had committed the theft to raise sufficient money to go to work in the country. H$ was a youth who would probably respond to supervision, and in view of this, and the fact that he had never been in trouble before, counsel asked that the court treat him as leniently as possible.— The accused was admitted to probation for 12 months.