THEFT OF SKINS
LABOURER-SENT TO GAOL.
While on watch/on" the deck of "ths New Zealand Shipping Company's liner Turakina at;.the Glasgow Wharf about 4.15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Detective Tricklebank noticed JSdward Harrison, a, labourer, walking towards him.; Harrison's trousers appeared -bulky, so the -detective took him into the saloon and searched him, and he found eight opossum skins secreted on Jiim. Ab a result Harrison was charged with the theft of the skins at- the Magistrate's Court to-day. . • ....
Chief Detective Kemp explained that the accused had been -working.. bn the steamer. He was a married man -with two children, and had been working on the wharf for a number of years. The skins were valued at 10s each.
On behalf of the accused; Mr. C; A. L. Treadwel^ said that the skins had been found .by Harrison among some dunnage.. How they came to be there nobody knew. The man was not a natural thief," but had succumbed to a sudden; temptation. Counsel called evidence in support of accused's previous good character, and .explained that as a result" of the .act, Harrison's wife was now in a state oi nervous prostration.
The Magistrate: "This seems-to be an. ordinary, case of the theft of cargo, and a terra, of imprisonment'"will' have to be imposed. He will be sentenced to twenty-one ' days'- impVisonmeht."-
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 124, 21 November 1924, Page 3
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221THEFT OF SKINS Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 124, 21 November 1924, Page 3
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