POLICE COURT.
(Before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.)
LOOKED SWEETER.
William Shannon (02) appeared fof sentence on a charge of being an idl» and disorderly person with insufficient means of support.
Accused had been sent up to Mount Eden ou remand in order to be cleaned up. and the magistrate remarked that he looked a lot better now. " Yes, sir, he is a bit sweeter looking this morning,"' added Chief Detective Cummings. The old chap was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence whea called upon. A MISSING SAXOPHONE. The thiift of a saxophone, valued at £43, the property of Lewis B. Eady and Son. Ltd.. was preferred against Harold Gordon Stanley Woolf l2Sj. The evidence showed ihat the saxophone had been missed from the shop of Lewis Eady's. and that accused had pledged it at a local pawnbroker's foJ to. Later he called and sold the pawn ticket to the second-hand dealer for 1"/. in a statement made to the police, accused admitted having possession of the instrument, but stated that a man whom he did not know ga\e it to him. He pleaded not guilty and was corainitted to the Supreme Court for trial
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1926, Page 8
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