STOLE A SHIRT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 35, 12 July 1939, Page 5

STOLE A SHIRT

MAN GIVEN MONTH'S GAOL AUSTRALIAN WITH LONG LIST William Alfred Cyril Ro e f aged 37, a labourer, an .Australian with a lengthy list of about 20' convictions, not all serious, but including burglary and escaping from prison, appeared before Messrs G. A. Brabant and C. G,. Justices of the Pca.ce, at Whakatane on Tuesday morning to answer charges of drunkenness and the theft of a shirt valued at 4s Gd, the property of Bridgers Ltd., Whakatane. Rose pleaded guilty to both offences, which were committed on July 10. Constable T. J. Cummings, outlining the case < said that the police received a telephone call from Bridgers Ltd stating that the shirt had been stolen from the doorway. Constable Hcdlev arrested Rose near The Rock'. The shirt had been taken from him by a member of Bridgers' staff. Rose was more or less of a vagrant type. It would not be possible for him to serine *a s&nteVi®<ic'rft Whakatane ajt present,»• as coll;ivecomivttid tion was, not, avajlaljlp.: Ijfjie P. reliable man it might, be possible .to keep "ftlm hfeVe,but he ' bad escaped fr'om prison' s fibt-Hvfeiiit anything of that nature. Rose said lie was very drunk at the time of the offence, and regretted what ihe. hact doHe.- jf: ' : The Bench, regretted that; they were, forced to send him to gaol, but he would be sentenced to one month's imprisonmnent in the Auckland .gaol, on the theft charge-.; He; was convict, ed| a?id discharged, .for. drunkenness.