STOLE COMPANION'S MONEY
[Pek United Press Association.] INVERCARGILL, February 19. After a retirement of 20 minutes the jury returned with a verdict of guilty in the case in which Henry Hunt Manson, a labourer, formerly of the Public Works- camp at Milford, was charged with the theft of £4l, the property of Samuel Lines, a fellowworker at Milford. The accused in evidence said lie had put the money, which had been given to him by Innes to give to limes s brother, in a-canvas bag. When he arrived at Bluff he and two other men hired a taxi and came to Invercargill. On arrival he found that the bag was missing. He made inquiries, and found the bag at the left luggage office, but the money was gone. “ You have been found guilty of a very mean theft of the earnings of a fellow-employee,” Mr Justice Kennedy said in sentencing the accused to imprisonment for one month with hard
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Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 11
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159STOLE COMPANION'S MONEY Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 11
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