PRISONERS SENTENCED
THEFT FROM RELIEF
WORKERS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day. William Henry Aitken was sentenced to three months' gaol for the theft of £10 from the South Dunedin Unemployed Association.
The Magistrate described the theft, as a particularly mean one, as the prisoner had defrauded his fellow relief workers.
Tho accused was formerly secretary of the association, and failed to bank the money, declaring at first that it waa in a friend's safe, and lator that he had lost it in.a fight. David Griffiths, a watersider, was,sentenced to one month's gaol for the theft of cargo frpm the Hororata at Port Chalmers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1934, Page 11
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