£100 THEFT CHARGE
PRINTER FOR TRIAL
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Hugh Classen McCready, aged 32 years, a printer, was committed for trial today on a charge "of stealing £100, the ■■property of H. C. Mclntyre. The evidence showed that McCready and Mclntyre were patients in the Public Hospital and that Mclntyre confided that lie had £100 to collect from the Public Trust Office. The accused volunteered to collect it for him, and Mclntyre gave him an order and also lent him an overcoat and gave him £1 to buy a wallet. He never saw the accused again till he appeared in. Court today. The police said that the accused told them he had spent all the money except fiyepence. When asked how he spent it, he replied that he did not know exactly, but that "her name was Nellie."
The accused pleaded not guilty.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1933, Page 20
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146£100 THEFT CHARGE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1933, Page 20
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