PEDDLED STOLEN GOODS.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 26, 31 January 1921, Page 5

PEDDLED STOLEN GOODS.

■ ■ HOTEL PORTER ON" WATERFRONT. The theft of a kit-bag- and contents, valued at £15, from the Albert Hotel last Wednesday was admitted at the | Police Court this morning by a middleaged man, Thomas Angus, -who had been employed as porter at the hotel. AfteT , the man lrad been cornered by Detective I Metklejohn he admitted that as he was j going oat of the hotel he enw the handI bag in the hall-way. picked it up, and I walked down the street with it. In I a retiring room at the Ferry Buildings he Opened the T>asr, and took ont six or eight singlets that were in it. Then he left the bag and its other contents at the leftluggage office of the railway station, and sold the sinplets to different people about the waterfront for two shilling* and half-a-crown apiece. He arso sold the left luggage ticket. The man had previous convictions for theft against him, and Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M., remarked that thefts by such persons as hotel porters and railway servants, who -were trusted with privileges, could not be lightly regarded. Accused was sentenced to six months' hard labour.