THEFT OF GROCERIES
STOREMAN'S LAPSE
A plea of guilty to two charges of theft of groceries valued at £1 4s 9d, the property of Thomas Coltman, was entered by George Samuel Tilby, a storeman, before Mr. W. F. Stilwell, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today. Detective-Sergeant W. Kane, who prosecuted, said' that the defendant had been a storeman at the Grand Hotel for the last thirteen years. On March 27 the hotel van left two boxes of firewood at the home of the defendant, and the groceries were found in the boxes. Mr. R. Hardie Boys, who appeared for the defendant, said that Tilby was a married man with three children. Until a month ?£o his wages were £3 14s 8d per weeK. His wife suffered from tuberculosis, and had had seventeen operations in the last three years. Restitution had been made and the defendant had 1 %;t his job. Mr. Stilwell admitted Tilby to probation for eighteen months.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 11
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159THEFT OF GROCERIES Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 11
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