THEFT CHARGES
FOUR MEN SENTENCED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, October 15. A sentence of 12 months’ imprisonment was imposed by Mr Stout. S.M., on Nelson Mayes (32), an upholsterer, who pleaded guilty to four charges of committing theft by failing to account to Wholesale Furniture Factory Ltd. for sums totalling £47 15s. Hector Alexander Mudgway (26) was placed on probation for two and a-half years on 14 charges of committing theft by failing to account to D. W. Virtue and Co. Ltd. for sums totalling £139 18s 4cl. Ho was employed by the firm for three months as a traveller, it was stated, and had not been before the court before. The father bad made restitution in full. The Magistrate imposed a condition that restitution be made to tho father at the rate of £1 a week. Three months’ hard labour was imposed on Albert Edward Hargraves (53), a cook, for stealing a wallet and £ls from a room in an hotel at Stratford, and on Robert Frederick Conlon (45), a cook, for stealing a suit case and clothing valued at £ls from an hotel room in Palmerston North.
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Evening Star, Issue 24016, 15 October 1941, Page 9
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187THEFT CHARGES Evening Star, Issue 24016, 15 October 1941, Page 9
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