SHOPLIFTER CAUGHT.
SENTENCE ON LABOURER.
MANY PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS
"The only thing to do with you is to send you to prison. Every year you serve several months there, and it seems the only place where you behave yourself," said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court to-day to William Edward Cotter, labourer, aged 59, who pleaded guilty to stealing a lady's bag valued at 15/11 from the Farmers' Trading Company's store yesterday. • Sub-Inspector Fox said that Cotter approached an assistant about 2 p.m. njid asked him for Gd. This was refused, and later the same assistant saw him leaving the store with the stolen bag under his coat. When accosted he asked for a chance, saying he had never been in trouble before. He smelt of liquor, but he was 3ober. "This man has Z4 previous convictions." Cotter, who said he did not know • hat he had done, was sentenced to ono tonth's imprisonment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 186, 7 August 1936, Page 8
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