THIEF CAUGHT BY POLICE CHIEF
ARREST IN DEPARTMENT STORE (New Zealand Press Association) W ELLINGTON, June 20. The Commissioner of Police (Mr E. H. Compton) yesterday evening caugh> a man in the act of removing a pair of earrings from a display tray in a city department store. Mr Compton detained the man, searched him, and found the earrings in a pocket. In the Magistrate’s Court today, a 48-ye ar - ol d watersider, Leo Maurice Clifton, admitted the theft and was imprisoned for 21 days by Mr M. B. Scully, S.M. Clifton’s house was later searched, said Senior-Detective W. S. Craigie prosecuting, and six wood bite valued 2 6s were found. Cllftdn said he had bought them from a man about J une 1, 1947, but knew them to be pillaged cargo. On the charge of receiving stolen property Clifton was sentenced to 21 days’ imprisonment, to. be served concurrently with the sentence for shoplifting. » He admitted the offence.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27072, 22 June 1953, Page 13
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