THEFT FROM A CHURCH
AN OLD OFFENDER The theft of a table and two chairs, valued at £2, and described as the property of Frank Cullen, was admitted by a middle-aged man named Joseph George Kearsley, alias Kqrsley, who appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. According to Sub-Inspector Cummings accused stole the articles from St. Joseph’s Church, Buckle Street, on Tuesday, and disposed* of them to two different second-hand dealers. Hie man had been before the Court previously on offences of a similar nature.
The Magistrate sentenced accused to two months’ imprisonment, and ordered him to make restitution at the rate of 6s. 6d. per week.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 89, 11 January 1923, Page 5
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111THEFT FROM A CHURCH Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 89, 11 January 1923, Page 5
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