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CIRCUS EMPLOYEES IN TROUBLE.
A series of petty thefts which took place at various places in the South Island at the time that a circus happened to be in the neighbourhood led to a search warrant being issued in Wellington last Friday. On that day Detective Jarrold and a number of other detectives executed tho search, with the result that some travelling rugs, collars, gloves, and shirts came into their possession. Following this, three circug hands, Robert Edward Butcher, aged 20, Robert Landford, aged 31, and Ernest Sydney Stewart, were arrested, and on Saturday morning appeared before Mr. J. 11. Salmon, S.M., in tho Magistrate’s Court charged with receiving property, knowing 'it to have been dishonestly obtained.
Butcher was alleged to have received property to the value of £2 4s. fid., and Stewart to tho value of £2. Two charges, involving property to a total value of £2l, were preferred against Stewart.
AU three mon were remanded to January 10.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 85, 9 January 1928, Page 5
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