MISSING SAFE
TWO MEN FOR TRIAL
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, January 24,
The disappearance of a safe containing £38 17s Id from the shop of the I Auckland Meat Company, Limited, Mount Albert Road, on January 1, was recalled in the Magistrate's Court today, when two labourers, Ernest Edwin Newton and John Leslie Florence, both aged 26, were jointly charged with the offence. Each man was also charged with vagrancy and being found in possession of house-breaking implements. Newton was separately charged with the theft of two motor-driver's licences. Both the accused pleaded not guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Newton admitted stealing the licences, and sentence was postponed until after the Supreme Court sessions.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 16
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119MISSING SAFE Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 20, 25 January 1938, Page 16
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