MAN FROM THE COUNTRY.
—• . KOKBED OF .\ l.j Null-;. A nun named John Mc-Mahon, aged i..nut :U years. wa- arre-tc.l thi,. morn-, ng by Detcciives Ou.irtcimain and Cum. ' nings a: .( ho.irdinghou-c in Federal ■ -trcct nn a charge thi.t he stole Co.' I lie urrc-t »a- fbc result of a complaint >y an elderly man train (he King Country, who had been liuving a holiday in Vuckl.ind. lhat he had been robbed on rhurbday of a Co note. He hid picked ip acquaintance with a man on the •trcct and taken him to the s..\. Workng Men's Hone, where he stayed an.l •vheTc he shouted hi- new friend" a meal. \iter tc.i. ,in pilliir/; -nine paper- from ! ii- pocket, he drew out a L.i note, and he other man picked it up. When he iske.l for it- return, the other man reilie.l. "Come and have a drink." They'! vent out. and when they were in ail' illeyway outside the Home tbe other nan knocked the old man down and rolled with the money. IS i, alleged-. hat Mc-M-ibon i- the mm who etole the ' annicy.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 167, 15 July 1914, Page 5
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183MAN FROM THE COUNTRY. Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 167, 15 July 1914, Page 5
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