LOST NEAR PRISON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 281, 26 November 1937, Page 18

LOST NEAR PRISON.

u STRANGE," SAY POLICE. THE FT OF O.MS SHF.VF.S. (By Tcleffrnph.—Prpss .Außoelntlon.) CHRISTf IirKCH, Thursday. "We have every ren-ion to liel!eve that the sheaves were not the ohje-l of his visit, or the reason for the tin-.k being there." said Deteetive-Serjfennt Holmes in the Magistrate's Court to d.«y when Henry Herbert Pearee plenileil guilty to a eh«rge of stealing a number of onts sheaves valued at 2/6, the property of the Controller-fieneral of Prist ns. Pearee was fined in default 30 days' imprisonment, by Air. E. C. Levve_v, S.M. Deteetive-Sergeant Holmes sr.id that the farm manager at the Paparim prison saw a trnek outside the prison grounds, nnd his Hiispieions were aroused. The manager and a warder aeeostcd Pearee, who said lie had got lost in trie dark, as he was not familiar with the neighbourhood. He admitted that h° stole a number of sheaves. "It is strange that he got 10.-t, as he is well known lit the prison," concluded the deteeti ve-«iergeant. Asked if he had anything to say, Pearee replied that if '.t had been anyone else, nothing would have been said. In imposing sentence, the magistrate said Pearee apparently knew the inside of the neighbourhood well.