GRAPE STEALING
SEVERAL YOUTHS PUNISHED. Several boys appeared at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday on charges of stealing grapes. James Hilston, Arthur Wildermoth, Stephen Hartshorne, and Daniel John Gregg were called upon to explain why they had stolen two bunches of grapes, valued at 25., the property of John Laurenson. Sub-Inspector Cummings stated that Wildermoth and Hartshorne had made the raid, while the other two boys remained on watch. They were to whistle a tune if danger threatened. Hilston and. Gregg pleaded not guilty.
Mr. F; K. Hunt, S.M.: Why do you plead not guilty? Because you stayed on watch? You are just as guilty as if you had gone in and plucked the bunches of grapes off the vines. This is different from simply robbing an apple orchard. It is more like breaking and entering. Each of the accused was ordered to forfeit a week’s pay. Hartshorne was the heaviest loser, as he receives £3 a week, while the other youths draw 15e. a week. James Hilston, Victor Mitchell Henderson. and Albert Edward Dyer were then charged with stealing grapes to the value of .£3 10s„ the property of Sydney Kirkcaldie. Ths accused pleaded guilty. After hearing the evidence, the Magistrate fined the accused 10s. each, and ordered them to make good the value of the grapes stolen.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 171, 7 April 1923, Page 8
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218GRAPE STEALING Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 171, 7 April 1923, Page 8
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