A CHARGE DISMISSED
"The evidence in this case leaves me in a little doubt, and I propose to give the defendant the benefit o£ that doubt," said Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, when William Bodval Hughes was charged with stealing a quantity of tea, valued at ss, the property of the Wellington Public Hospital. ChiefDetective Ward said that in October last defendant was receiving assistance from the Social Welfare branch of the Wellington Hospital ,lnd had called on business at the Hospital. While the defendant was waiting to interview an official he passed a remark to those standing near which led them to believe he was going to take some tea from a nearby kitchen. Later the defendant came out with a small parcel containing 2%1b of tea. The defendant was followed and asked to bring the tea back, but this was not done. In the box Hughes denied that he had ever seen the tea. He did not even know where the kitchen was.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 131, 8 December 1928, Page 31
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169A CHARGE DISMISSED Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 131, 8 December 1928, Page 31
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