POCKET-PICKING.
HOTEL bar theft
WHARF LABOURER SENTENCED
After the lapse of 17 years since he was last "in trouble," a wharf labourer. George Edward Siddens, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Herdman in the Supreme Court to-day for theft. Siddens had induced a man to go into a public bar with him, and while they were there he stole the man's purse and ran away, said his Honor. It was really a case of pocket picking. The police records showed that Siddens had been convicted of drunkenness and resisting the police, but there was nothing against him sjnee 1914. He had now, it wap Stated, "broken out in a fresh place" and committed theft. ; In imposing a sentence of six months imprisonment with hard labour, his Honor took into account the fact that the prisoner had never previously been convicted of any crime involving dishonesty,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 37, 13 February 1931, Page 5
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