UNUSUAL REQUEST.
IMMEDIATE TRIAL SOUGHT BY REMANDED MAN. AUCKLAND, August 26. The unusual action of a remanded man calling at the police station and asking that he bo brought before the Court immediately was described when Herbert Albert Edward Scott, aged 32, a tablet porter, was charged with stealing a hand saw and obtaining sums totalling £3 by false pretences. The accused’s counsel said that, against his advice, the accused was pleading guilty to all charges, saying that he had no hope and it was a case of his word against another’s. He (counsel) thought the accused stole the saw, but that he was not guilty of tho other charges. A detective said that Scott told the police that if he were left on bail he would go away in the Aorangi to America. The Magistrate granted accused six months’ probation, and ordered restitution to be made.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 27 August 1930, Page 3
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