Fined £50 For Theft
(A J! Press Association) DUNEDIN. June 7. The tragedy of a man who had led a blameless life for 53 years suddenly finding himself in this position because of an offence committed on impulse was described byMr W. McAlevey in the Magistrate’s Court today when his client, James Sproule Colquhoun Gilkinson, aged 53. a clerk, appeared for sentence on a charge of having Stolen £124 from the Dunedin Jockey Club's totalisator at Wingatui on Saturday. "It was your own choosing and nobody else’s,” Mr J. D. Willis. S.M., told Gilkinson, who was fined £5O. I
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29843, 8 June 1962, Page 13
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