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; ooaiMTrrßD fob raiAii Cn» Our Own UirreapoßCtat.)' MEHiBOURNE, April 3. The latest Melbourne scandal concern; an ex-member of the Legislative Assembly, Alexander Frederick Parker, 'who has been committed for trial on a charge of having broken into Messrs. Coutts Bros.' shirt factory, and stolen 43 dozen shirts, valued at £185. Detective Fowler said that shirts taken from the factory had been found in the possession of accused. His explanation was that he had bought them from a man who bad called upon him one morning. He did not know the man, and he could not produce any docket or receipt to substantiate his statement. Counsel for Parker said thet he would produce witnesses to testify as to Parker's whereabouts on the night of th* robbery; also a witness to substantiate Parker's etory of a man calling at business places offering shirts for sale, and representing that he was from the Co-übra Shirt Company, on the same date ac Parker said he had called on him. There wag also the fact that Parker had openly displayed these shirt* in his Melbourne shop window.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 90, 17 April 1922, Page 3
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