UNRULY THIEF
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. Owen Byrne (32) was to-day sentenced to sis months' imprisonment for stealing a pair of/shoes valued at. 5s lid, and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon on a charge of damaging a constable's tunic. The accused was noticed by a constable from Wellington taking the shoes from a rack in front o£ a Ponsonby shop. The visiting policeman chased Byrne, who made off, and on catching iim handed the prisoner over to a uniformed man. The accused picked up a piece of rock and threatened to throw it .at the latter. Byrne became violent when placed in a cell, and when a constable entered to see what was wrong the accused attacked him and damaged his tunic beyond repair.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 16, 20 January 1928, Page 8
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134UNRULY THIEF Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 16, 20 January 1928, Page 8
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