DEAR MEAT
THE PRICE OF THEFT
EX-CONSTABLE FINED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. Two former constables and a meat carter were charged in the Police Court to-day with stealing meat valued at Is 6d. Herbert Ernest Jones was fined £5, but the charge against the other ex-constable was dismissed. Robert George Rhodes, the carter, was fined £2.
The evidence showed that Rhodes was carting meat from tho abattoir to a shop adjoining a suburban police station. Rhodes arrived about midnight, and was told by Jones that there was supper awaiting him at the station. After supper -Rhodes was alleged to have told Jones that there was a parcel of meat waiting for him in the shop. Later, a police sergeant hiding in the shop saw Jones and the other constable enter the shop and take some meat into the station.
Rhodes, in evidence, denied that he told Jones that there was a parcel awaiting him but admitted leaving,the shop door closed but unlocked for Jones.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1931, Page 8
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166DEAR MEAT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1931, Page 8
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