STOLE FOR FOOD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3839, 23 May 1913, Page 5

STOLE FOR FOOD.

YOUNG MARRIED MAN’S MISDEMEANORS.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.] AUCKLAND, May 22. Charles Windle, aged 2o years, came before Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., this morning for sentence 011 charges of~ having- stolen six bicycles and a watch and-chain. . Counsel said Windle was only a boy in years and he had a wife a year younger than himself, and a child born in March. He had been in a small business as a chemist in England, but his health broke down and he was ordered away for his health, with the result that he came to Now Zealand twelve months ago. His wife had worked as a chemist’s assistant, and later in a jeweller’s shop, but the wages were only £2 per week. Prisoner had endeavored to get better work, but that resulted in his getting out of work altogether, and ho and his wife were on tho point of starvation. He concealed from his wife that he was tinemployed, and in order to get- money for food, entered on a series of thefts, selling the stolen goods. It was a case of desperation caused bv hunger. His Worship said that lie thought there was little doubt that accused did not fully recognise his responsibilities and in other circumstances lie would have been., given a team of years of reformative treatment. It was impossible that he should not bo punished at all. and he would bo sentenced to two months’ hard labor.