MONTH AND A DAY.
TRAM CONDUCTOR SENTENCED THEFT OF CONCESSION TICKETS. SECURITY FOR APPEAL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A tram conductor named James Shaw Be van Rico was sentenced to-day by Mi. E. Page, SIM., to a month and a day in prieon on a charge of stealing a block of tramway universal concession tickets valued at £3 10/ from the box of a fellow employee at the Kilbirnie traru depot. Tlio case against another conductor, who was jointly charged, was dismissed. In imposing the sentence the magistrate remarked that the sentence of Oi>e month would entitle prisoner to appeal only on the question of law. If, however, the sentence was increased a general appeal could be made. Counsel for Rice said he would prefer an extension of one day. Security for appeal was fixed at £25. The magistrate remarked, before convicting the accused, on the serious aspect of such a case, in that it threw suspicion on other employees, as, in this case, on a man whom he thought wae quite innocent of the charge.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 179, 30 July 1932, Page 10
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178MONTH AND A DAY. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 179, 30 July 1932, Page 10
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