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TAILOR’ CHARGED. WITH RECEIVING. Two charges of receiving stolen property, involving a sum of over £lOO, were preferred against a tailor, Peter McPherson, who made his appearance ou summons before Messrs. R. D. Hanlon and R. JI Collins, J.P. s, in tho Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The informations alleged that the man. well knowing the material to have been dishonestly obtifined, had rr-ceived from John Ryan (who was sentenced in tho Supreme Court on Tuesday to throe years’ reformative detention for theft) 62 yards of pinhead grey tweed, 20 yards of green striped tweed,- the property of David Milligan, and 30 yards of blue serge, tho property of James Bell, the total value of thq Hath being £96 75.; further. that ho received from Charles Horace Sivright Barry (on»whom was inflicted a similar sentence to Ryan’s) 3ti yards of blue indigo sergo, valued nt £2O 12s. 6d., the property of James The case was adjourned until Wednesday next.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 175, 12 April 1923, Page 4
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159MISSING CLOTH Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 175, 12 April 1923, Page 4
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