Breaking into a Tobacco Shop.
ARUKST OF THE WRONG MEN. (Dv TiJ.KtiUAPH.) i /'• ( /'c ("musr< at iu n, This day. At the Magistrate's (.Hurt to-dny, two yomi'f liit'ii were charged with breaking into a tobacoo shop, ami stealing good*. The police >taU d there was not evidence t isunqh to proceed, and the men were dwhar^ed. Ouu of them pointed out the hardships of arrest, and had the police tak#n the trouble it would have !>e. n found that he arrived by steamer at LyUeltou on Saturday morning, whereas the robin*ry took plate on Friday He had lost a chance of fUjpl«i\ incut through the arrest. The prt-idmg Magistral*? said hj« was xirry for tin* mistake, hut it wa.-t one of these accidents for which there was no help aud nothing could bt) doae-
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Hastings Standard, Issue 225, 20 January 1897, Page 2
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134Breaking into a Tobacco Shop. Hastings Standard, Issue 225, 20 January 1897, Page 2
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