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AN ACGOUNTANT FINED £5. Saying it was a miserable, mean sort of tlieft, Sir J. B. Sandbach, at -Marlborough Street, imposed a lino oi £>o on James Crichton Helme, aged of, an accountant of Leigham Court Hoad, Streatliam, for stealing a newspaper from a collection-box at Mai bio Aich. P.O. Atkinson said he saw Helme take the newspaper from the collec-tion-box and walk away. He opened the paper, and as he was reading it he, the officer, asked him if he realised that he could be charged with stealing. Helme replied, “I really thought that the papers were for the use of the public. J did it under a misapprehension.”
The officer said the collection-box clearly indicated in I J-inch letters that the papers in the box were for free distribution to hospitals and the forces.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 172, 3 May 1943, Page 6
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