CAUGHT IN ACT
EARLY MORNING CRIME
TWO MEN SENTENCED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, June 20,
Arrested by a detective early last Tuesday morning as they were about to break open a penny in the slot telephone cash container, Arthur Albert Edward Pink, 24, labourer, and Charles Joseph Seymour Smith, 27, plumber, appeared in the Police Court today. Pink alone was charged on five counts of wilfully damaging telephones and also with the theft of £17 15s, the property of the Postmaster-General, and jointly with Smith Pink faced eight charges of mischief and eight of theft of a total sum of £12. Both pleaded guilty.
The police said that the two men had been employed as canvassers selling polishes. Early one morning they set out in Pink's car to break open suburban telephone cash containers and were caught by the police night patrol.
Mr. Orr Walker sentenced Pink to three months' imprisonment with hard labour on each of four charges, the sentences to be cumulative, and Smith to three months' imprisonment with hard labour on each of three charges, the sentences to be cumulative. Each was convicted on the other charges and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within tw y o years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 144, 21 June 1938, Page 16
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