“A SILLY THEFT”
LABOURER SENT TO PRISON. "It was certainly a silly theft, but at the same time you have two previous convictions, one for forgery and one for theft," said Mr. J. H. Salmon. S.M., to Parau Henare, alias Harry Pourou, alias Henry Joseph Wilson, when the latter pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing railway tickets to the value of <£□ 45., the property of the Railway Department. Sub-Inspector Lander explained that on Tuesday last in the absence of the tablet porter at the Porirua station, accused, who is a labourer at the Mental Hospital, entered the office- and took the tickets. The theft was discovered, and later Constable Adams interviewed accused, who admitted taking the tickets. Practically all the tickets had been recovered. The Magistrate said that ho could not see the sense of taking railway tickets, but it was explained that they could have been disposed of in certain circumstances. Accused was sentence 1 to one month’s imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 86, 10 January 1928, Page 15
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