THREE MONTHS FOR THEFT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1944, Page 3

THREE MONTHS FOR THEFT

A waterside worker who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court last Thursday to the. theft of jewellery valued at £41 from his mother and married sister, was remanded until today for sentence to give him an opportunity of stating.to whom he sold it He was Michael, Joseph O'Grady, 37 and when he, appeared again before Mr .J. L. Stoiit,: - S.M., today Detec-tive-Sergeant J. Thompson said that no information had been . obtained from the accused. _Mr. -W. J. Stacey, who appeared for OGrady, said that he.had endeavoured to .persuade him toy-tell where' the jewellery -was,, but O'Grady refund stating that he would not be an informer. ' ■'. Mr. Stacey/submitted thai th<> rrrni to whom the .jewellery was sold vasi more guilty than O'Giv.-'y as <h-; accused was undsr th- 'jnfluincr of liquor at the time. Detect! ve-£-;:ec~l Thomson interrupted and said that on Friday as a result of rending the nrv paper account of the case, the man to whom the jewellery was sold called immediately at the police station. He was an w°h n oeS ™n-: He knew the accusS *™ has\ gOi sst 0 him for a loan of £20 and had left the jewellery as security. Allthe jewellery, with the exception: of one ring, had been rehadlbeen n°^> O'Grady was sentenced to three months- imprisonment with hard