SIX MONTHS' GAOL
THEFT FROM FELLOW
WORKER
A sentence of six months' imprisonment with hard labour was imposed by Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today on Charles Herbert Brogden. alias Forsyth, a hotel cook, aged 34, who pleaded guilty to the theft at Ohingaiti of £10 10s Bd, the property of Ivan Gordon Munro.
Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle said that the accused was sent to Ohingaiti by the Placement Office as cook at a station. He stole the money on August 27 from a fellow-worker's room. Afterwards, he left on a pretext and went to Wellington, where he was located by Detective W. Fell. The theft was a particularly mean one. The accused had been convicted previously for theft.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 13
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122SIX MONTHS' GAOL Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 13
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