FOOTBALL ACCIDENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17028, 13 August 1929, Page 12

FOOTBALL ACCIDENT

STOLE TO PAY EXPENSES Having previously pleaded guilty to hi charge of having on or about dune 1, and on various dates between that period and duly 29, stolen sums of money amounting to £2B t)s lOd, the property of the Combined* Motor Services, a young man, Henry Brewerton Harford, appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrate's Court and was admitted to two years' probation. Mr. Oram, who appeared for accused, said that some time previously acenscd had sustained a football injury which bad affected his spine, and the incurring of heavy medical and hospital expenses bad led to him foolishly taking money which was the property of his employers in order to tide him over. The money was now being repaid by relatives. "His employers were willing to keep him on provided be was placed on probation. Mr. Oram then asked that accused's name be suppressed, but the magistrate staled thai he could not do that in a case where a deliberate theft had been committed. "He was old enough to know better," said His Worship, "and in my opinion the right of suppression should not ba on the Stat rite Hook except for juveniles. Kven people who break a by-law are asking for the snppression of their names. Publication is part of the punishment, particularly when a man is granted a term of probation instead of imprisonment."