COAT TAKEN.
"TRIVIAL, ,, SAYS S.M. WERE IN "MERRY MOOD." TRAVELUNa CRICKETERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Though dismissing the charge as trivial, the magistrate, Mr. J. H. Luxford, refused to suppress the names of Cornelius O'Halloran and William Calder Crisp, two members of a travelling cricket team from the Hutt Valley, charged with the theft of a uniform valued at £7 7/ on the Kangatira en route to Lyttelton on New Year's Eve. It appeared that they went to the wireless room with a friend who wanted to send a message. • They had been round the bar and were in a merry mood. While in the wireless room they took the operator's coat from where it was hanging. The coat's subsequent adventures indued a trip to Christchurch, but 6t was made clear that there was never any intention that it should not be returned. The magistrate was satisfied there was no real intention to retain the coat permanently, but said a cricket team should play the game when travelling just as it was expected to do on the field.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1938, Page 17
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179COAT TAKEN. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1938, Page 17
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