THEFT OF TOBACCO.
SALESMAN BEFORE COURT.
SHORT SENTENCE IMPOSED. "I picked up the tobacco, and while waiting for an assistant to collect the money for my purchase I went to look at a horoscope which was nearby when I was accosted and taken to the manager's office," said Arthur Walker Stuckey, aged 54, a salesman, who pleaded not guilty in the Police Court this morning to a charge of stealing a packet of tobacco valued at Bd, the property of the' Farmers' Trading Company. "I suppose it is a question of whether the horoscope was favourable or unfavourable," said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M. Stuckey strongly maintained his innocence and said the evidence was mere supposition or suspicion. He had no intention of stealing the tobacco. "I am afraid I cannot believe your story," the magistrate told him. "You put the packet of tobacco in your pocket. If you had it in your hand it might have been different. It is a very difficult matter to detect shoplifting offences, which can only be stopped by the imposition of imprisonment. A3 this is the first time you have been up here for dishonesty I will make the term a short one. Seven days' imprisonment.' .
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 271, 15 November 1935, Page 8
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202THEFT OF TOBACCO. Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 271, 15 November 1935, Page 8
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