ONE MONTH FOR THEFT
*- "If your Worship intends to sentence me this time, yould you mind making it concurrent with the sentence I am serving now?" asked Peter. Butler, alias Chaneey, a labourer, aged 54, who appeared before Messrs. I. Salek and G. Anyon, J Ps, in the Magistrate's Court to-day, and admitted the theft of a pair of boots .valued at £1 2s Cd from outside the Economic Shoe Store. . Chief-Detective Ward told the Court that the theft was committed last Friday. The accused sold the boots to an unknown man, and they had not been recovered. He was at present serving fourteen days imprisonment for the theft of another pair of boots, which he stole the previous day. Butler: "I have a 30b to go to, your "Worship, and I will repay the money. Mr. Salck: ''Jt is not a question of money, but of theft." A sentence of one month's imprisonment was imposed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 119, 16 November 1926, Page 3
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156ONE MONTH FOR THEFT Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 119, 16 November 1926, Page 3
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