A MEAN THIEF
BIT HAND THAT TED HIM. “ I plead guilty to that. I was in bad circumstances at the time, and had no work,” eaid a grubby-looking individual named Austin William Thomas Holbrook, when charged in the Police Court this morning with stealing? a watch and chain and a razor and bla&es, of a total value of £1 4s, the property of Hugh M‘Ewan, Chief-detective Lewis said that the theft was a particularly mean one. The accused was out of work, and mentioned his plight to M’Ewan, who was an old-age pensioner. M'Ewan took him in, and kept him for a time. Then he stole the articles mentioned, pledging them for 4e 6d. Ho had been previously convicted for drunkenness, theft, and vagrancy. Holbrook : I had nowhere to go. The man certainly took me in The Magistrate : And then you were blackguard enough to rob him? Accused : “ I admit I done it, sir; but I intended to return the things to him as soon as I got work.” He pr needed to go into details regarding his difficulties. The Magistrate (Mr H. VV. Bundle) : He has been committed ro Seacliff, hasn’t he? Chief-detective Lewis : He is not strong mentally, lie is one of the wandering type who just wander round town without doing anything steady ir; the way of work. The accused was remanded till Friday in custody, to allow inquiries to bo made regarding him.
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Evening Star, Issue 18715, 18 August 1924, Page 7
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237A MEAN THIEF Evening Star, Issue 18715, 18 August 1924, Page 7
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