ROBBED WHILE ASLEEP
BY SHIP’S’ FIREMAN. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 2. A young fireman on the Malolo, named O’Reilly, was charged at the Police Court, with stealing £23 from Ernest Shine. The latter, staying at a City Hotel during Sunday night, woke to find O’Reilly at the foot of his bed. Later, he discovered £23 of £3O in notes had been stolen from his trousers pockets. A detective accompanied Shine to the Malolo where three crumpled notes were found beneath O’Reilly’s bunk. Mr Hunt, S.M., remanded accused to 3 p.m., and said failing the return of the missing money, he would be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1929, Page 2
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