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THEFT OF A BLANKET

MAN SENT TO GAOL

"This man has a long list of convictions; there seem to be about twenty for theft and various other charges," said Mr. E.. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Coiirt today, when sentencing John James Ross a labourer, aged 46, to three months' imprisonment on a charge of stealing a blanket, valued "at 3s. . Sub-Inspector Martin eaid that the accused" who. was arrested, on Sa urday evening, had in hi* possession a blanket which he said he had procured from a person in a hotel. He later contradicted this statement, and the police had not been able to find out where- he got the bl The eaccused, who pleaded guilty, asked the Magistrate to give him a chance 1 was only discharged from prison-pn feattirfliv and I don't know how I came to be in possession of the blanket," he said.

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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 9

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THEFT OF A BLANKET Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 9

THEFT OF A BLANKET Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 9