MAGISTRATE’S COURT
WEDNESDAY (Before Mr F. F. Reid, • S.M.) THEFT OF BEER Victor Julius Edwardson, aged 21, a motor driver, and. William Blight, aged 23, a storeman. appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing four crates of beer, valued at £ll, the property of Eric Noel Vivian. The Magistrate said the circumstances indicated it was more of a drunken escapade than a deliberate theft. Each accused was admitted to probation for 18 months, special conditions being that each take out a prohibition order and not associate with each other or with George Vernon Dickinson, who was sentenced last week on the same charge. SUSPENDED SENTENCE A woman, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to commit suicide, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months, conditional on her remaining in a home for that period. An order was made prohibiting the publication of her
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25713, 27 January 1949, Page 7
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