PARTICULARLY MEAN
THEFT FROM SICK MAN
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DTJNEDIN, This Day.
"It was a particularly mean theft," said Detective-Sergeant Doyle when Charles Thomas Woods, aged 32, pleaded guilty to stealing £2 17s 6d from William McKee at Auckland a year ago. The police stated that the accused and the complainant worked together in ah Auckland freezing plant.' The complainant became seriously ill, being in hospital for nine months, and when his life was despaired of he gave the accused an order to draw the money due to him as wages. The accused did so, but cleared out with, the complainant's money and clothes. Last week Detective Doyle recognised him when he entered the Police Court to give evidence in another case.
The Magistrate, in sentencing the accused to three months' imprisonment, said that his gaol record showed that ho was of no account.
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Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 12
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144PARTICULARLY MEAN Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 12
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