LONG SERIES OF PETTY THEFTS
[Per United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, November 30. Thefts extending from February _to November of various goods, including milk bottles, milk, motor tyres, and electric light bulbs, valued in all at £4O, were cleared up when Frederick Walter Trotter, aged fifty, a milkman pleaded guilty to seventeen charges, and was sentenced by the magistrate (Mr Mosley) to four months’, with hard labour. Concerning the theft of milk bottles, the police said there were many complaints of the offence. It was easy to commit and difficult to detect. All the thefts had been committed in the early morning rounds. Charles Henry Francis Carr (eighteen), who had been associated with Trotter in a number of the thefts, was admitted to probation for two years.
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Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 11
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126LONG SERIES OF PETTY THEFTS Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 11
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