STOLEN FROM VAN.
SUITCASE AND CLOTH. ACCUSED PLEADS GUILTY. Charged with the theft of a stmcase, rolls of cloth and a mat, of a total value of £14 S/(i, Gordon Logan, ship'steward, aged 22, pleaded guilty in t&j. Police Court to-day. Detective-Sergeant Trethewey said that on April 2 the accused, when in the company of another man, had taken the case containing the goods from a van then parked in Queen Street. The goods were the property of John Lawrence Baker a traveller. Subsequently much of thg cloth had been sold, but goods to the value of £7 1/ had not been recovered Constable Kilgour read a state meat made by accused, in which he said he was a single man. a ship's steward Inoccupation, but had been out of employment for some time. Accused, who had previous convictions, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 90, 16 April 1940, Page 8
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