STOLEN FUR

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 118, 20 May 1932, Page 9

STOLEN FUR

RECEIVER GAOLED

. Stated to have a long list of convictions ior crimes, including assault and robbery, Victor Fanning Fraser Kett was sentenced to three months' imprisonment by. Mr. E. rage, b.M.. to-day for receiving from Arthur L. Dalley a fur-valued at £2, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained Sub-Inspector Ward' said that on 3rd May JJalley, who was working for a furrier m the city, committed the theft of a fur He was unable to dispose of it himself, and the following day'he gave it to the accused and asked him to sell it. The accuseds carried the fur about the city far some days ,aud when-interviewed by detectives he i said he had seen a price tac on the fur, and concluded that it must have Si c. en» sto'? n- The accused, who had a "list datins from 1915, and Dalley had both been in prison before, and it was probable that they had become acquaiuted there.

The Magistrate ordered that the fur should be returned to its owner.

CRUSHED BENEATH TREE

Crushed beneath a fallen tree on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Peter McGuirc, aged CO, a bushman engaged at Arahiwi, between Mamaku and Rotorua, received' severe injuries, which later necessitated the amputation of his right leg (states a Eotorua correspondent). Mr. McGuire was felling a tree, and was- unable to get clear in time before it crashed on to him. He was .lammed beneath the heavy trunk, and his comrades had difficulty in extricating him. In great pain, he was taken a considerable distance to the Arahiwi siding, to which the Eotorua ambulance was summoned. Halfway back to Eotorua Dr. Wallis met the ambulance and gave tho injured man treatment. Mr. McGuire was admitted to the King George V. ilospital shortly after 0 p.m., and an amputation was performed later in the night.