WELLINGTON CONVICTIONS.
WELLINGTON, July. 7. In, the Magistrate's Court •.■Michael Crowley was charged with .Hie ..theft of a number of articles from.-the steamer City of .Dunkirk, and was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. Nellie Wells, on a charge Of receiving some of the goods knowing ■them to have been dishonestly obtained, was 'sentenced to ono month's imprisonment. .
In passing sentence, : ,Mr ' :Fi-azer, S.M., said that one -part of the- evidence struck him with particular force. ■'It/- was the statement that there was a. gang of thieves amongst the watersiders who had some method of dividing the spoils.
Mr-Frazer added: "Very many, of the waterside thefts we have had before 'this Court of kite hiive been in respect of trivial articles, and the instances were isolated. This appears to be something of an entirely different kind,/.ami this is. the-sort of thing which it is the duty of the Courts to stop if it is at air possible."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9652, 8 July 1919, Page 5
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