THE OLD STORY.
STEWARD'S TALE Michael Alban Atkinson, aged 26, a ship's steward, told a story to Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Police Court this morning—one that the magistrate did not believe. It was the old story that an unknown man had approached him in a hotel, handed him a gold watch and asked him to pawn it for him. After hearing the evidence concerning a gold watch worth £7 10/ (which Atkinson was charged with stealing) that disappeared from a Hobson Street boardinghouse on July 29. the magistrate told Atkinson he did not believe his evidence or his explanation given to a detective. Atkinson, whose sentence of one month's imprisonment for ship desertion expires to-day, was sentenced to a further month's term for stealing the watch.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 8
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129THE OLD STORY. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 8
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