SIX MONTHS’ JAIL
Theft From A Friend
“This is a particularly mean theft seeing that complainant has at various times befriended accused, Gawti,’ said Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, referring to a charge against Charles Raoul Francis Gawn, labourer. aged 21, and John Michael George Johnson, labourer, aged 22. They were charged with stealing an attache ease and contents of a total value of £5/1/5, the property of F. S. Rhodes. It was stated that Gawn and Johnson went to Rhodes’s room, took the attache from under the bed, distributed the contents and spent the money on liquor. Johnson was making his thirty-sixth appearance before the Court and Gawn his ninth. One of the accused asked the magistrate. Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., if there were any chance of getting probation. They had already enlisted in the army.
The magistrate: I don’t think they want thieves in rile Army. Each accused was sent to jail for six mouths.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 2, 27 September 1939, Page 3
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162SIX MONTHS’ JAIL Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 2, 27 September 1939, Page 3
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