THEFT OF BOTTLES
Harry Addley, a labourer, aged 20, and William Andrew McColl, aged 19, were charged before Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court, today, with the theft of bottles from Hindu bottle-dealers.
Sub-Inspector D. J. O'Neill said the accused had come across a bottledealer's vehicle, and had each taken a sack of bottles while he was in a house and had disposed of them to a second-hand dealer. They later' removed two more sacks of bottles from another dealer's vehicle, but the police had been notified, and they were detected. Addley had been previously convicted. .
Addley was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and McColl was admitted to probation for two years and ordered to pay a shilling, the value of bottles which had been broken.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 11
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