THEFT OF TWO BALES OF WOOL

Southland Times, Issue 23180, 22 April 1937, Page 10

THEFT OF TWO BALES OF WOOL

YOUNG MAN PLEADS GUILTY (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 21. A plea of guilty on a charge of stealing two bales of wool, valued at £l5, at Te Miro, near Cambridge, on December 5, was entered by Keith Terrence Gemmell aged 21 years. The police said that Gemmell and his uncle, named Capner, started from Auckland selling potatoes from a motor truck. At Cambridge they asked a widow to sell them two bales of wool from her farm, but she would not sell. On the way back from Rotorua to Auckland Gemmell said his uncle entered the widow’s wool shed and stole the wool. The accused sold it to an Auckland firm for £ll and handed the money to his uncle, who gave him £3. Gemmell served a term in the Borstal for participation in the Auckland riots some years ago. Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., remarked that although Gemmell was under the domination of a hardened criminal, he had sold the wool under another name. He admitted the accused to probation for two years and ordered him to make restitution.