THEFT OF WATCH
"People are not entitled to keep things they find in the streets. If they do so and make.'them their own property, they are guilty of theft," said Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday when admitting Ivy Catherine Eggers to probation for twelve months on a charge of stealing a lady's wristlet watch valued at £.4. The defendant pleaded guilty. The facts, .as outlined by Detective-Ser-geant W. McLennan, were that the defendant, while employed as a tram conductor, had the watch handed to her -by a passenger, who said it had been dropped by a college girl. The defendant did not turn the watch m at the lost property office and at first denied having it, but later admitted possession of the watch to a detective. The Magistrate said the defendant should have known she was not entitled to retain the watch.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 3, 3 July 1943, Page 7
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148THEFT OF WATCH Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 3, 3 July 1943, Page 7
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