GUILTY OF THEFT.
TWO MEN SENTENCED". » » . <mu **»octmo« TstsajiiM-) WELIiINGTON, ■ Pleas -of guilty were '' entered by Keith Elford Craig and George Sim Mouat before Mr E. Page, B_Jtf-., today, 'on joint charges vof stealing iw® sums of £2O each. Craig was sjfco charged <mth a third?offence* of stealing £2O. ; A detective said that the two accused started a. butchery, business it They advertised for an assistant and secured a £2O bond from one named Olsen. Further sums of the-same amount were obtained 1 from two , othtfr • men. Craig was the prime mover. -- He took all the money, and ' the three men-who advanced the bonds got nothing. • Craig, who had two previous convictions for false pretences and theft, was sentenced to six.months' imprisonment. Mouat was admitted to-probation for ; two years and ordered to refund £4O;
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20463, 5 February 1932, Page 11
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