MORNING INTRUDER.
LABOURER FOUND IN OFFICE.
WRITING ON CHEQUE FORM,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day
Mr. Angus J. MeCurdy, owner of a picture hall in Upper Hutt where he used a room as an office, went there at 5.30 one morning recently and found the door of the hall open and a light in the office. Going in lie found Charles William Patrick Foley, a young labourer, there. The intruder said he had found the door open and a light on, and had just come in. Mr. MeCurdy told him to go, but then found two pennies and a small diary valued at 1/ missing and his cheque book open on the table with one form partly filled in with the words "P. Foley" after the word "pay" and "fifty-five" after the words "the sum of."
In a statement to the police Foley admitted {jetty theft, and also admitted the writing of the cheque. He said he had not completed this as he did not know the correct procedure. Mr. McNeil, S.M., committed him to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Auckland Star, Issue 38, 14 February 1929, Page 9
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