CASE OF PILLAGING
COMMENT BY JUDGE
(P.A.) ' DUNEDIN, June 12. "It seems to me that the theft must have been cleverly committed and that your attempts to put off the in-i vestigating officers were cunning," said Mr. Justice Kennedy in sentencing Andrew Curtis Blee (33), waterside worker, on a charge of theft of four bottles of brandy juice. He added that although 22 bottles appeared to have been stolen it was to the theft of only four that the prisoner pleaded guilty. It was difficult to resist the conclusion that there was somewhere, by some person or persons, wholesale pillage. ''There seems no excuse for your dishonesty," said his Honour. "Last year your earnings exceeded £500 from the.- wharf. It must have been sheer covetousness."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1942, Page 6
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125CASE OF PILLAGING Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1942, Page 6
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