TRAVELS CUT SHORT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 188, 11 August 1933, Page 6

TRAVELS CUT SHORT

THREE MEN AND WOMAN. TWO SENT TO GAOL. | Per Press Association. 1 WELLINGTON, Aug. 10. A number of offences were admitted by Thomas Edmond Walsh. 24, and Clement Robert Lawson, 23, when they appeared before Mr. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to day. Detective-Sergeant Revell said that the two accused, together with a man named Robinson and a woman named | Armstrong, came to Wellington, from Auckland in a stolen motor-car. They rented a flat in the city and when they left Wellington they took the blankets with them. At Pahiatua they broke a petrol pump and stole five gallons of petrol. Lawson had been before the Court before, but Walsh had no previous convictions. There were other charges pending against them. Accused were sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, and Lawson was (also fined £3 in connection with the use of an unlicensed motor-car. Both accused were remanded to appear at Wanganui on further joint charges of breaking and entering at Aramoho, and stealing a motor-car at Auckland owned by Andrew Leonard Caughey. The woman Armstrong was charged with being an idle and disorderly person in that she had insufficient lawful means of support. Detective-Sergeant Revell said that accused’s home was at Christchurch, where she met Lawson. She became infatuated with him and had been travel ling about the country with him for the last three or four months. The police understood that her people were now j taking an interest in her and she would I have a good home to go to. ■ Counsel entered a plea of gui.’ty on I behalf of accused and said that she hnd come to Wellington with Lawson on I the understanding that they were to [be married. Here, apparently, the marriage had to be postpone 1 owing to | Lawson’s lack of money. | The magistrate admitted needed to i probation for a period of 12 months on condition she returned to her parents’ j home and staved here.