MANY CONVICTIONS
'■' PAIR OF BOOTS STOLEN
V "Accused has 32 previous convictions,, including Charges of theft and 'false pretences," said Detective-Ser-geant L. Kevell when an Australian 'named William John Carr, a cook, aged •31, appeared in the Magistrate's Court ; today and pleaded guilty to the theft of a pair of boots valued at £1 Is, the property of George Francis Guise. The Magistrate (Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M.) him to one month's im-
r The detective-sergeant said the pair rof boots had disappeared from, com- . plainant's shop. They were recovered /by a detective from a pawnshop where -.they had been pawned for 6s. ;.' The accused claimed that he had had. /no conviction for theft for three years. '/'I took the wrong-sized boots," he said. -p"When I. tried them on they were 'too •vbig/' ' " "' 5 The Magistrate: I'm afraid your "^memory is at fault. You were convicted of theft'on October 4, 1934. Don't .you remember that?
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 11
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155MANY CONVICTIONS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 11
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