THEFT OF SCRAP METAL
Accused Found Guilty On Retrial
Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, November 14. A jury in the Supreme Court today convicted Gordon Anderson Wallace, aged 30. a scrap metal dealer, of six charges of theft. Mr Justice McGregor remanded him till Wednesday for sentence. Wallace was being retried on nine counts of theft. He had been indicted on 13 charges last week. A jury found him not guilty on four of them, but could not agree on the verdicts for the remaining nine. The prosecution alleged that Wallace participated in the theft of 70 tons of rail fastenings, valued by the owner of them, the Railways Department, at £7OOO. The material disappeared from where it was stored in an uncovered enclosure at Trentham, and some of it was found in scrap metal dealers’ yards in Wellington and the Hutt Valley and on a Wellington wharf, where a ship was loading scrap for export.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28435, 15 November 1957, Page 21
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