PORTER ADMITS THEFTS
COURT GRANTS PROBATION, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckand, Aug. 26. The unusual action of a remanded man calling at the police station and askng that he be brought before the Court immediately was described when Herbert Albert Edward Scott, aged 32, a tablet porter, was charged with stealing a handsaw and obtaining sums totalling £3 by false pretences. Scott’s counsel said that against his advice accused was pleading guilty to all the charges, saying that he had no hope and it was a case of liis word against another’s. Council thought accused stole the saw, but that he was not guilty on the other charges. A detective said Scott told the police that if left on bail he would go away in the Aorangi o America. The magistrate granted six months’ probation and ordered restitution.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 August 1930, Page 2
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