NINE MONTHS FOR RECEIVING
(MESS ASSOCIATION rELEGUAU.) WELLINGTON, August 29. The explanation that a sack containing cutlery and watches stolen from a jeweller had been left with him to look after by another man was made by George Charles Waterman, a war pensioner, who was charged in the Wellington Magistrate's Court with receiving articles valued at £25 7s 7d, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. The goods had been found by detectives in accused's washhouse. Detective-Sergeant Revell, who prosecuted, referred to a list of previous convictions. The accused: I admit all those but not this. I am the victim of circumstances. The magistrate, Mr Orr Walker, sentenced Waterman to nine months' imprisonment wjth hard labour. When sentence had been passed a woman who was seated at the back of the court cried out, "No, you can't do that." She fainted and was carried out o£ the court.'
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21256, 30 August 1934, Page 4
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