THEFT CHARGE DISMISSED
Practical Joke On Police
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 23. A former policeman who helped an elderly policeman to arrest a Niue Islander, who had been fighting in Eastbourne, and later played a practical joke on a polfCe constable, when he arrived at the Lower Hutt Police Station, by hiding an oil can, appeared in the Lower Hutt Magistrate’s Court today on a charge of stealing the can, valued at £l, the property of the Police Department. He was Ronald David John Salt, who was told by Mr J. R. Drummond, S.M.: “It was a risky kind of joke, but I accept your stony.” The Magistrate dismissed the charge. Constable Robert Heath, of the Lower Hutt station, said the can had been taken from the running board of a car at the station, and put into the foot recess behind the front seat of the car, in which Salt had been a member of the party which brought the arrested man from Eastbourne. Salt had said he had taken the can for fun.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28699, 24 September 1958, Page 18
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