TWO MONTHS IN GAOL
ELDERLY MAX'S OFFEXCE
Two months' imprisonment was imposed on Samuel Jordan, aged 72 years, when he was charged in the Police Court this morning, before Mr. J. Morling, S.M., with the theft of a garden spray and pump, valued at £1 18/. He pleaded not guilty Detective-Sergeant J. Trethewey stated that Jordan was arrested after he had sold the spray and pump which were nearly new, at a secondhand dealer's for 6/. Jordan had stated when questioned that he had called into a house to ask if he could cut a hedge. A man had told him that he had no work for him, but that he could take the spray and pump. The owner oMhe goods -had not II
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1942, Page 8
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