‘Unusual’ theft of rooster
The crowing of a rooster on New Year’s Eve so annoyed two youths that one carried it off the adjacent property and the other cut Its throat with a carving knife, Detective Sergeant J. G. Howell said in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The youths, Alan Richard Dawson, aged 17, a driver’s assistant, and Russell William Liddell, aged 17, a workman, pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of the rooster, a Wyandotte worth $lO. They were discharged without conviction by Mr W. F. Brown, S.M., after each had paid restitution of *5.
Detective Sergeant Howell said that Liddell and Dawson buried the rooster in the garden after midnight. The Magistrate said it was an unusual case of theft and questioned whether the facta supported the charge. “Well, the rooster certainly could not be restored to its owner in its original condition,” Detective Sergeant Howell said.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32874, 24 March 1972, Page 4
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