FOUND IN KITCHEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 5

FOUND IN KITCHEN.

WIFE GETS A SURPRISE.

ELDERLY MAN ARRESTED.

"HIS PRINCIPAL OCCUPATION"."

"Thieving seems to be his principal occupation, judging ;by his long list of. previous convictions," said Mr. F. K. Hunt,; S.M., at the Police Court .this morning, when he consigned James Maloney, a labourer, aged 69, to prison for three months.

Maloney denied a charge of stealing a clock, Valued' at 2/11, from the dwelling of May Brown, 16, Gundry Street. '_ Mrs. Brown eaid she was sitting in her front room, together with her husband,, having a cup of tea, shortly after four o'clock yesterday afternoon. She saw accused looking at her house, and later found him in the kitchen, groping around the mantelpiece. She called her husband, who caught accused in an alleyway. A clock was missed from the mantelpiece, but this was later found by Constable Frain in some flowers near where witness' husband caught accused.

Accused: Did! not say I was looking for a man named Clifford? —No.

"If the clock : was worth stealing rt would be all right, but it's not," added Maloney, amidst laughter. The arresting constable said Maloney denied all knowledge of the clock. Maloney was quite sober. , •