BORSTAL FOR YOUTH

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 66, 19 March 1942, Page 6

BORSTAL FOR YOUTH

ASSUMED NAMES AND SERIES OF THEFTS I ‘O.C.» Marton March 18 ! "Accused is a very plausible liar, and had a tale of woe to tell at each 1 place where he was working," said Sergeant P. Alsop. who prosecuted in lhe Magistrate's Court. Marton, to- | day, "hen Arthur Miller Keen, aged 18. appeared before Mr. A. Coleman, | S.M., on 11 charges of th .ft. Keen pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ; two years' detention in a Borstal inI stitution. i Sergeant Alsop added accused went under an assumed name at different , places, where he worked, enabling him ■ to perpetrate similar tricks in various ■ districts. When arrested at Marton ’ on March 2 he was living under the I assumed nam of Edward James • Jamieson. Outlining the case. Sergeant Alsop i said accused went to a farmer at [ Paeroa on January 1 1 , and borrowed ; c rtain articles of clothing on the i pretence that he had accepted em- ■ ployment on the farm. Next day he | |pft and did not re 4 urn. He .vorked l from January 13 till January 20 on another farm, but cleared out with I property value ! at £1 10s 3d. Later he stole £8 in money and a cycle valued iat £9 together with other property. ■ from a farm at Matamata. After describing various thefts at 1 Rolorua and Tauranga Sergeant : Alson said that or. lhe night of Feb- , ruary 26 accused stayed with a Mr. . E. J. .Jamieson, but left early next I morning, leaving h.s swag in the garage. He returned later for the j swag, but finding nobody at home en- ; tered the house and stole various ■articles of clothing. Most of the I stolen property. with the exception of th. money, had been recovered. ; The magistrate commented that ■ accused had also committed a breach lof his probation order, having been I admitted to probat‘ i, on four charges of theft, at Thames on September 9. [ 1941. | An order was made i property re- • covered to be returned to lhe owners.