GETTING LEMONS.
Each recurring fruit season brings renewed complaints about depredations committed upon orchards. A case detected yesterday may perhaps deter fruit-stealera from further operations. About two p.m. Constable Foreman was going the rounds in Ponsonby, when he saw four'boys selling fruit. It'has been well said that a guilty conscience needs no accuser, for as soon as the little fellows saw the man in blue they dropped the iruib and ran for it. Foreman and Finnerty, however, succeeded in securing four boys, who appeared at the Police Court this morning before Dr. Giles, R.M. Their names areas follows :—Thomas W. Cbatfield, ugcd 13; Ernest Sutton Chatfield, 11; George Roderick Green, 14 ; and Frederick Callaghan, 11. They all pleaded guilty to having stolen lemons and apples from" the orchard of Wm. Mason at Pon3onby. Sergeant-Major Pratt related the facts Of the cuse, and Mr Green said that the boy was wild, though he had not been up before. Dr. Giles dismissed E. S. Chatfield with a caution, and ordered each ot the others to receive six strokes with a birch rod, also 24 jhours' hard labour.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 23, 28 January 1891, Page 5
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185GETTING LEMONS. Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 23, 28 January 1891, Page 5
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