HIDING BEHIND A DOOR.
MAX CAUGHT STEALING. WAITER HOLDS HIM FOR POLICE.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON", this day. i A waiter's struggle with a man whom he found in suspicious circumstances in the dressing room of the Regent Marble Bar on Saturday, was 'described in the Police Court to-day, j when Samuel Joseph Darragh, aged 25, a labourer, was charged with assaulting , William Webster, waiter, and with stealing a wallet and a tin of tobacco valued | at 4/3. ! Accused admitted the theft, but denied j the assault. The evidence showed that Webster found the man hiding behind a door, and as he could not give a satisfactory ! explanation of himself he closed with | him. Darragh broke away in the ensuing 1 struggle, but Webster recaptured him j and held him till the arrival of the | police. ' Darragh said he had no money and he j went into the back of the premises to I get something to eat. Temptation got ; the better of him, and he stole the I wallet and the tobacco. Ho was sentenced to 14 , days' ini- ! prisonment and ordered to pay £1 for : witness' expenses.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 79, 3 April 1928, Page 10
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189HIDING BEHIND A DOOR. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 79, 3 April 1928, Page 10
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