STOLEN SUITCASE.
"I was drunk when I stole the suitcase and also drunk when I sold it" said James Patricly Cusack, aged 33, labourer, when charged in the" Police' Court to-day with stealing a suitcase and contents, of a total value of £4 15/, the property of Robert Ed*ar Fyfe. ° Detective - Sergeant McHugh said Cusack, who was a bushman, "stole the suitcase from a car in Albert Street and later sold it and its contents to a man on the waterfront for 2/, He came from the country, but recently lie had been drinking heavily in the city. He had spent a week 'in prison on remand and had never been in trouble before. "He says that if given a chance he will return to the country," said Mr. McHugh. "We don't want him in the city." Cusack was convicted and ordered to make restitution "within three months.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 42, 19 February 1934, Page 8
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148STOLEN SUITCASE. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 42, 19 February 1934, Page 8
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