"FINDS NOT KEEPS."
MAGISTBATE'S DECISION. WOMAN PKOSECUTED. After two years a married woman, whose name was suppressed, was charged at the Police Court this morning with the theft of a gold wristlet watch. The watch had been lost by a girl from a car in Henderson in 1928 and had been picked up on the road by the woman. Although Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., dismissed the case, he decided that "finds are not keeps." "If people find articles on the road there is a reasonable chance these days of finding the owner. Goods picked up should not be kept, but they should be given to the local constable. This woman has had the use of the watch for two years, but she must give it up now. I will dismiss the case, but if it had been a man I would have convicted him. The woman must pay the costs."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1930, Page 7
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