SUITCASES STOLEN
ACHILLES’ MEN ROBBED FIREMAN CONVICTED (Par Prosfi Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Two sailors from the cruiser H.M.S. Achilles came ashore on leave yesterday afternoon and left their suitcases in a hotel passage, intending to leave by the train for the south. In the Police Court to-day, Robert Morton, aged 44, a ship’s fireman, pleaded guilty to the theft of the property of Robert Maidment and Ivor Reginald Burston. Morton told the magistrate he was drunk yesterday. “When I found the suitcases at home, I told my wife to telephone the “demons,” he said. Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., convicted and ordered Morton to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months and ordered him to take out a prohibition order.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 29 February 1940, Page 7
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125SUITCASES STOLEN Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 29 February 1940, Page 7
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