ALLEGED THEFTS
ARMY AMMUNITION" P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, November 22.
"It seems a good reason for not ordering suppression if he is innocent," said the Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Levvey, when: Mr. W. R. Lascelles, counsel for William Douglas Crombie, Army Officer, aged 48, applied for interim suppression of the accused's name. Crombie was charged with the theft on November 17 of 3261 rounds of .303 ammunition, valued at £12 18s, the property of the Army Department. Mr. Lascelles said he could see no reasonable grounds for believing Crombie to ">be guilty, and he had a clean record. :7Al remand to November 29 was granted, bail of £50 with one surety of £50 being allowed. , •/ Bart Huia Dean, warrant officer, was remanded to November 29 on charges of theft at Sumner on November 6 of 2000 rounds of Army ammunition valued at £20 6s Bd, and the theft at New Brighton on August 31, 1942, of two tins of custard powder valued at 7s Bd, the property of the Army Department. Bail of £50 and one surety of £50 was allowed v A similar remand on bail was granted in the case of Naylor William. Collins Hillary, soldier, aged 43, who. was charged with the theft on October 20 of 1052 rounds of Army ammunition valued at £10 15s. _
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1943, Page 4
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217ALLEGED THEFTS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 125, 23 November 1943, Page 4
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