BICYCLE THIEF GAOLED
A month's hard labour on each of three charges of theft, to be cumulative, was imposed in the Magistrate's Court today by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., on Leslie Louis Stalker, labourer, 43 (Mr. W. G. L. Mellish). DetectiveSergeant E. H. Compton said the accused was discharged from hospital on December 7 after having been there for a short time with suspected pneumonia. He went to stay at a house in Tory Street and stole two blade razors, a cardigan; and an alarm clock (total value £2 2s). 'On December 21 he stole a woman's bicycle from Vivian Street and attempted to sell it to dealers, and the machine had not been recovered. The following day he stole a man's bicycle from Customhouse Quay and sold the lamp and dynamo before abandoning it. Stalker returned from the war about nine months ago and was receiving a pension of £3 a week. Mr. Mellish said the accused was in the Army for nearly three years, and the offences had been committed through drink —men on furlough he had met had been too kind to him.
The Magistrate said Stalker had a pretty bad list, mostly for theft, going back to 1928.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 3
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