THEFTS FROM HOTELS.
ONE MONTH’S IMPRISONMENT. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The fact of three members of the Auckland police being included in the Auckland travelling Rugby team was responsible for the appearance in court of a hotel thief, Basil Goodwin Breese, a labourer, aged 33, who came to Wellington from Masterton in response to a notification by a registry office that he had got a job on a farm Taihape. The story .told was that accused came by taxi, and consumed a fair amount of liquor on the road. He visited some hotels and had more liquor, and later went, to the servants’ quarters of the Britannia Hofei, where he took several sums of money. He then went to the Empire Hotel, but was here discovered in suspicious circumstances by one of the ' footballer policemen. Accused, who was already on probation for theft, was convicted and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment on each of three charges, the sentences to be concurrent.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 283, 10 September 1938, Page 6
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