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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 121, 18 November 1918, Page 6

A charge against John W. Bailey of having stolen two drums of sheep dip on the King's Wharf on 31st October last was investigated by Mr. F. V, Frazer, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court this morning. Defendant is an expressman, and a tally clerk named A. Bell stated that he saw him driving 1 past him with the drums on the express. He took t a note of the name on the express, arid a day or so later went to the express standj in Post Office-square,' and identified the express as the one he had Been on the wharf. He could not identify defendant as the man who was driving the express with the dip on it, as he had only had a temporary view of him. Constable Cleverly, of the wharf police, said that he had interviewed defendant, who said that he was on the wharf on the day t< question, that no one but himself drove his express, and that he knew nothing of the missing dip. He searched defendant's premises the next day, and could find no sign, of the. dip. Mr. P. W. Jackson appeared for the defendant, and urged that there was no evidence in support of the charge. He called defendant, who said he knew nothing about the dip. The witness Bell had never spoken to him on that day. He had been an expressman for two years and a-half, and was well known on the wharf. His Worship dismissed-the case.