THEFT FROM SLOT TELEPHONES
TWO MEN SENTENCED [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 20. • Arrested by a detective early on Tuesday morning as they were about to break open a penny-in-the-slot telephone cash container, Arthur Albert Edward Pink (24), a labourer, and Charles Joseph Seymour _ Smith (27), a plumber, appeared in the Police Court to-day. Pink alone was charged on five counts of wilfully damaging telephones, also with the theft of £l7 Iss, the property of the Postmaster-General, and jointly with Smith, Pink faced eight charges of mischief and eight of the theft of a total sum of £l2. Both pleaded- guilty. The police said that the two men had been employed as canvassers selling polishes. Early one morning they set out in Pink’s car to break open suburban telephone cash containers and were caught by the police night patrol. Mr Orr Walker, S.M., sentenced Pink to three months’ imprisonment on each of four charges, the sentences to be cumulative. Smith was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment on each of three charges, the sentences to be cumulative. Each was convicted on the other charges and ordered to come up for sentence if ■ called upon within two years.
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Evening Star, Issue 22988, 20 June 1938, Page 12
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197THEFT FROM SLOT TELEPHONES Evening Star, Issue 22988, 20 June 1938, Page 12
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