HIS SECOND LAPSE
TOOLS STOLEN TO PAY BOARD.
, Just discharged ..w gaol after serving a sentence for,false pretences, John George Moir, a carpenter/ aged SO, was taken pity on by Kenneth Charleston MKenzie, who lent him a kit of tools to enable him to get work. Moir did not however hnd work, but'sold the tools to a secondhand dealer. This was the story outlined in the Magistrate's Court to-day by Chief-Detective Ward, when Moir pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing the tools, which were valued at £15 Hen not very fond of work," added the chief detective. - Moir's explanation from the dock was that he was indebted to M'Kenzie for a weeks board, and had merely pawned the? tools to pay for the board. Mr. X Page, S.M., sentenced Moir to a month s imprisonment.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1926, Page 9
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136HIS SECOND LAPSE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1926, Page 9
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