SUPREME COURT SITTINGS.
(BY TBLEOBArE—PKUSS ASSOCIATION.) ' Auckland, August 2-1. James Porcy Parkhurst, formerly omployed as a car cleaner by tho Auckland Electric Tramway Company, was at the Supremo Court to-day charged with tho theft of fivo umbrellas, and, secondly, with receiving fivo umbrellas knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. For tho prosecution, ovidenco was given to tho otfcct that while prisoner was in custody on another charge a detective searched tho, house and found tho five umbrellas producod. Prisoner thon said that somo of them wero brought homo by a man.namod Lynn. Prisoner subsequently admitted taking homo three umbrellas. Tho jury, after u brief retiromont, found tho prisoner guilty of common theft, adding: "Wo.urge that ho be treated with leniency in view of'tho extreme lax manner in which tho, Tramway Company conducts it's businoss at the' car barn." 110 was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 284, 25 August 1908, Page 7
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146SUPREME COURT SITTINGS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 284, 25 August 1908, Page 7
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