AFTER A WEDDING.
"BEST MAN" IS ARRESTED. A CROOKED DEAL IN JAM. After liaving officiated ot a wedding yesterday in tlie capacity of "best man," and still attired in clothe* befitting the festive occasion, a young man named William Tracy, aged nineteen years, yesterday afternoon proceeded to the police station, and suibmitfced to arrest by Detective Scott on a charge of having obtained twenty caeca of jam hy means of false pretences. This morning he camo before the Police Court, and was remanded till tomorrow on a £20 bail. Tho circumstances incidental to tlie arrest were that on Friday last Borne person rang up .Thompson and Hills', Ltd., on the telephone and ordered twenty cases of jam, valued at £-17 10/, to be sent to the National Trading 00. The carter «was met on the way by Tracy, | who was recently in the employ of the j Trading Co. as a carter, and who took charge of the jam, which was subsequently sold to a storekeeper named Campbell in Victoria Street. The •negation is that Tracy engineered and carried throngh the transaction for the purpose of getting money.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 186, 6 August 1914, Page 7
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188AFTER A WEDDING. Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 186, 6 August 1914, Page 7
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