and £20.5s in cash. He was remanded to a later date to face charges from May 16, with bail set at £20 (with sureties of a like amount). The four charges were dealt with on May 25. Kelly pleaded guilty to each charge. His solicitor, Thomas Rummery, said that his client's "lapse was due to unemployment". His "inability to obtain work had caused fits of despondency, during which he drank heavily". Rummery claimed "it was only while under the influence of liquor that he was guilty of dishonesty". During the hearing Mr. Starkey, a local contractor, offered to give Kelly permanent employment. The Police Magistrate, Henry Hawkins, said that "he did not think the defendant was worthy of much consideration, but that he did not feel disposed to put the gaol brand on him at present". He imposed fines amounting to £11 15s and bound Kelly to a bond of £40 (with sureties of a like amount) to be of good behaviour for two years (in default, imprisonment for three months). Hawkins also strongly advised Kelly to undertake not to drink liquor. On 22 February 1937, Kelly fraudulently passed a cheque to a storekeeper in Lismore, obtaining cigarettes and cash. Soon afterwards, he was arrested in Coolangatta, supposedly "heading for North Queensland". After appearing in the Coolangatta Police Court, Kelly was returned to Lismore. On March 8, he again faced Police Magistrate Hawkins in the Lismore Police Court, where it was revealed that in recent months Kelly had "passed several valueless cheques in the district" which his father had "made good" for his son "to avoid trouble". Hawkins reminded Kelly: "Last time you were here I gave you an opportunity to show that you had manhood enough to stick to your father and behave yourself for two years". The Police Magistrate told him "you have made a very fine start towards a career of crime", before sentencing the young man to fourteen days' imprisonment with hard labour, to be served at Lismore. At the Lismore Quarter Sessions in April 1937, Kelly was charged with abduction, accused of having "fraudulently allured a girl, aged 14 years and five months, from out of the possession of and against the will of her mother, with intent to commit a serious offence". He was also charged with carnal knowledge of the girl. Kelly was remanded on bail of £80 to stand trial at the