LATEST THAMES NEWS
(Special to the Daily Telegraph.) Thames, tliis da;. ALLEGED TBEFT At tho Poiico Court yesterday Ernest l'oterson, a German, was charged with tho theft o( J!23 and a pair o( boots from an Austrian named Barbnlitch, Tho ovideneo of tho prosecutor was to the effect that accused met prosocutor in Auckland. Accused represented himself as hard tip, and Barbnlitch promised him employment Tlioy proceeded to tho Thames, aad lor some days accused stopped at prosocutor's whfti'o, Acousoil was aloeping in tbo samo room as Barbnlitch, end, it is alleged, withdrew prosecutor's trousors from uudor tii3 liond and took from tho pockot tho sum montioued. 110 joinod tho train at tho Thames, but tho poiico woro communicated with, and ho was airosted at Morcer. Hovcral pounds wcro found on liitu, Ho wna committed for trial, His defonco was that ho had obtainod several sums from tho Gorman Consul in Auckland, and that tbo /nonoy belonged to him, and rot to prosocutor,
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1069, 17 August 1904, Page 2
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