UNUSUAL CHARGE.
THEFT OF TOTE TICKETS. PROBATION FOR BUSHMAN. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. An unusual theft charge waft heard in the Hamilton Police Court to-day, when John Charles Barry, aged 22, a bushman, was admitted to probation for twelve months for the theft of two totalisator tiokete at Te Rapa on Saturday. Senior-Sergeant G. H. Lambert explained that the accused overheard a man standing next to him say he had struck a winner, and he immediately aeked him for a look at the ticket. He gave a folded ticket back, and walked away, but it was soon discovered that he had given back a ticket in the previous race. Barry was followed, taken to the police room and searched, and the ticket wae found on him.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 154, 1 July 1940, Page 6
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