SHABBY THEFT

Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 9

SHABBY THEFT

FROM HOTEL ROOM OFFENDER SENT TO PRISON “ This was a shabby type of theft,” said Mr J. R. Bartholomew, S.M., in the Police Court this morning when sentencing Blyth Leslie Scott, a labourer, to seven days’ imprisonment for the theft of an alarm clock from the room of an employee at a private hotel in the city. Detective-sergeant Hall, who prosecuted, said the young woman to whom the clock belonged was away on a day’s leave when it was stolen. The clock -was sold by a man giving tho name of H. Jones lor Is 6d. Accused had been in Dunedin about four weeks, ho added, and had been employed at the freezing works at Burnside. At present he was on compensation. Scott came from tho North Island, Detective-sergeant Hall continued, where he had piled up 16 previous convictions. It looked ns though he was breaking new ground. He had stated he took the clock while muddled with drink.