STOLE PAIR OF BOOTS.
WELL-EDUCATED VAGRANT. ADMITTED TO PROBATION. Pleading guilty to the theft of a pair of boots, the property of Jaok Markham, George Reginald Pierce, aged 43 years, was admitted to two years’ probation by Mr S. L. Paterson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton, this morning. Detective-Sergeant J. Thompson stated that the accused was arrested late yesterday afternoon by Constable Watts after he had removed a pair of boots from outside Markham’s shop In Victoria Street. Pierce had one previous conviction for theft In 1932 when he was sentenced to a month’s hard labour. Pierce wap a vagrant type. The accused who, though 111-clad and unkempt spoke In a cultured, well-educated voice, attributed his lapse to 'over-indulgenoe in liquor. He was on his way from Auckland to Gisborne, where his people resided. “ I don’t want to send you to prison but I make it a special condition of the probation that you take out a prohibition order,” Mr Paterson observed to the accused.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19407, 6 November 1934, Page 6
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