CHARGES OF RECEIVING

Southland Times, Issue 20527, 2 July 1928, Page 8

CHARGES OF RECEIVING

PROBATION OFFICER’S REPORT AWAITED. Thomas Quinlivan was charged in the Police Court on Saturday morning with having received from James Brown Doake and Francis Augustus Stempa on June 6 a pair of shoes, a quantity of cigarettes and groceries to the value of £7 10/- and at Oreti on June 10 liquor to the value of £5, knowing these to have been dishonestly obtained.

It will be recollected that on Friday a charge against Quinlivan of having broken into and entered the storeroom of the Farmers’ Rest Hotel, Oreti, was dismissed, while on similar charges Stempa and Doake were committed for sentence to the Supreme Court.

As on Friday Quinlivan was represented |by Mr T. Meredith. A plea of guilty was i entered to each charge. i Detective-Sergeant Hewitt, who prosecuted, stated that while Doake, Stempa and the accused were camping at Hedgehope the two former, when returning from Invercargill in Doake’s car, had broken into the Lochiel store and stolen goods. Some of these goods had been used by the accused. When Stempa and Doake had broken into the Farmers’ Rest Hotel at Oreti the accused had remained in the car and on their return to camp had taken his share of the liquor. Mr Meredith in asking for probation stressed the fact that Quinlivan was much less to blame than the other two. Furthermore he had never previously been before the Court.

The Magistrate adjourned the case till Tuesday in order to obtain a report from the Probation Officer.