THEFT FROM CAR
TWO MEN GAOLED
Pleading guilty to the theft from a parked car.of a travelling rug valued at 10s, Charles Peter Kenny and William Etenry Homes appeared before 'Mr.'J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today.
Detective-Sergeant P. Doyle said that the owner of the motor-car parked it in Haining Street at 12.45 p.m. yesterday. , The car was locked, with the exception of one door which was defective, but which was secured. At 4.45 p.m. an employee of the BarrBrown Construction Company saw the two accused open the door and take the rug. They saw two detectives in the street, and dropped, the. rug in a doorway. Kenny was making his thirty-seventh appearance before the court, and Homes's record was almost, if not more, formidable. ' The two accused were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
A decree ■ nisi, was granted by Mr. Justice Reed in the Supreme Court today to Lawrence Scott Jay (Mr. R. Hardie .Boys), Who petitioned for divorce from •* his wife, Edna Jay, on. the ground of separation.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 11
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174THEFT FROM CAR Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1938, Page 11
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