"LEFT IN EXCHANGE"
U.S.S. CO.'S LINEN,
A widow named Christina Roach answered a charge in the Magistrate's Court to-day of receiving a counterpane a towel, nine pillowslips, and two table napkins, valued at £7 0s lOd, goods alleged to have been stolen from the Union feteam Ship Company. Evidence was giv«i by Detective Ineklebank, who said that acting on information contained in an anonymous letter, lie searched the. defendant's board-ing-house, where the.articles mentioned in the charge were, recovered. Mr W. IL.Tustin, who appeared for tlie defendant, explained that the articles were left in the boarding-house by seamen who exchanged goods stolen from the Union.Company for blankets belonging to the defendant.
In evidence the defendant said she had not received the articles as presents. She had never received a present from anyone.
The Bench: "You'll receive a fine of io iroin me in a minute." The Magistrate dismissed an alternative charge of theft, and on the charge of receiving, imposed a fine of. £5, in default ten days' imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 89, 17 April 1925, Page 6
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168"LEFT IN EXCHANGE" Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 89, 17 April 1925, Page 6
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