INCIDENT ON WHARF.
THEFT OF MONEY ALLEGED. (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, October 28. Pleading not guilty, William Henry Moseley, a \faterside worker, of New Plymouth, was committed for trial in the Supreme Court, when the hearing of a charge of theft of £173 in banknotes, from another watersider, John Edward Shore, on October 1, was concluded before Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., to-day. Bail of £IOO was renewed.
It was alleged that Shore dropped the money while playing the game of “spinning the top’’ on the wharf, and that Moseley picked it up. Police witnesses gave evidence about the interrogation of Moseley, who denied picking up the money. His house and his locker at the watersider.s’ shed were searched, but no money* was found.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 16, 29 October 1938, Page 8
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