STOLE HANDCUFFS.
FROM POLICEMAN’S BEDROOM. ACCUSED’S EXPLANATION. (Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. For stealing a pair of handcuffs from a policeman’s bedroom, Stevens Francis Llewellyn Neary, aged 41, was sent to gaol for a month. According to the police, Neary; was released from Pap am a pi'ison on Saturday and arrived at Lyttelton, in a drunken condition. He was sent away from the; inteir-island steamer wharf onaccount of his condition and made his way to the Sailors’ Home, where he had previously stayed. He was unlucky, however, for the Sailors’ Home is now a Naval and Police Barracks. Although evicted once, lie went back and stole the handcuffs from a constable’s bedroom. Later lie was arrested for drunkenness and the handcuffs were found among his possessions. His explanation. was that lie bought them from a Norwegian sailor.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 309, 7 October 1940, Page 6
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