A young man named Lush, 18 years of age, pleaded guilty before Mr. Riddell, S.M., on Safurday, to two charges of theft of two overcoats belonging to Messrs. Ross and Glandinning. Chief Detective M'Gr&th stated that accused had been employed at the informants' warehouse for three and a-half years. Last Thursday Detectives Broberg and Williams found that he sold an oilskin to a dealer for 3s. They questioned him about the matter, and he admitted the theft ; also the theft of another overcoat, which he i sold to a young man for 255. Ho made a statement confessing several petty thefts, but the i police were only in a position to provo the two cases before court. Mr. Toogood appeared for defendant, and said his client had no occasion to pilfer for tho sake of getting money. He was associated with rather fast-living companions, and was induced to get money '•to keep up the pace" with them. His Worship remanded accused for sentence until Wednesday morning for the Probation Officer's report, and allowed him out on bail in the meantime. Rheumo haß permanently cured thou- ' sands of sufferers from rheumatism, gout, eciatica, and lumbago. It, will euro you. j AH stores 2s 6d mid 4o od. Give it a ! j-ciaL — AdvU <!
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1907, Page 2
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