MOTHER AND SON BEFORE COURT

Southland Times, Issue 23228, 17 June 1937, Page 13

MOTHER AND SON BEFORE COURT

LIQUOR STOLEN AND SOLD (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 16. An allegation that a young man had been systematically stealing liquor and groceries from his employer and that his mother, who was a boardinghouse keeper, had been engaged in an illicit traffic in liquor over a period of eighteen months and had been disposing of the liquor and that she had encouraged her son to steal was made by DetectiverSergeant Doyle in the Magistrate’s Court. Restitution to the extent of £45 having been made, Mr W. F. Stilwell, S.M., imposed a fine of £l5, in default four months’ imprisonment, upon Leasly Frederick Keith Suridge, aged 29 years, a storeman, who pleaded guilty to the theft between June 1 of last year and February 27 from his employer, T. and W. Young and Co., of liquor to the value of £45. On a charge of theft between March 1 and May 31 of this year of liquor, cigarettes, pickles and other groceries valued at £23 11/1, he was admitted to probation for eighteen months.

His mother, Ethel Suridge, aged 49 years, was fined £2O for selling liquor without a licence and £5, in default a month’s imprisonment, for receiving liquor valued at £5 14/11, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. The charges were the result of a watch and a search of the boardinghouse and the son’s own home.