THEFT CHARGE ADMITTED
Pleading guilty in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday to the theft of a safety razor valued at £l/15/-, the property of Percy Frederick Russell, Ivor Robert Prescott, traveller, was convicted and discharged by Mr. Luxford, S.M. Counsel for Prescott, Mr. T. P. Cleary, said accused had previously been before the Court on a similar charge, but on that occasion did not admit the theft of the razor. He had since served a month in jail for stealing a number of small articles at the Centennial Exhibition. The razor was stolen at Granity, on the West Coast of the South Island, a short time before these offences were committed. Counsel expressed the hope that the magistrate would view the present as a clearing up charge. The magistrate: 1 agree with that view.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 147, 16 March 1940, Page 18
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134THEFT CHARGE ADMITTED Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 147, 16 March 1940, Page 18
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