RACE-DAY URGE TO STEAL
“He told me that something comes over him on race-.days, and he lumla in 1891. Detective Brown stated at Newtown Court Sydney, that this explanation was given him by Jack Ronald Turner, IS, labourer, who was charged with stealing at ;,St. Peters, on July 19, a suit of clothes and a watch, belonging to his brother, Cecil. The detective added that defendant was a good worker. Cecil Turner, in evidence, said that his brother had stolen his (Cecil’s) property on 20 or 30. occasions and pawned it in order to bet. Mr. Harrison, S.M., sentenced defendant to a month’s gaol, suspended on a bond of good behaviour for a year.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12820, 15 August 1939, Page 3
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