THEFT OF NEWSPAPERS
Harold Charles Martin, a salesman, aged 33, was convicted and fined £1 •when he appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, charged with the theft of two newspapers, valued at Bd. Sub-Inspec-tor D. J. O'Neill said that the complainant was a bookseller, and several times lately- bundles of newspapers left outside his door had been inter*fered with. Yesterday morning two papers were missing from a bundle, and later a constable found the accused in possession of them. The accused admitted that he had taken two papers under similar circumstances on a previous occasion. On his own behalf Martin said that it had been his custom to leave Bd. Yesterday he had two papers in his hand when arrested by the constable, and he alst had Bd. He intended paying for the papers as he had done in the past.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1939, Page 5
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147THEFT OF NEWSPAPERS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1939, Page 5
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