CHARGE DISMISSED
TRAVELLER IN COURT,
PACKED ANOTHER’S RAZOR STROP IN MISTAKE.
(by TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) GISBORNE, March 6. That the whole affair was an unfortunate mistake, was the decision of. Mr. E. C. Levvy, S.M., in the Magistrate s Court this morning, in a case in which Arthur Allen, an Auckland commercial traveller, was charged with the theft oi a razor strop from Alexander Manson. Accused was charged with stealing the strop from a Masonic Hotel bedroom. Evidence for the defence indicated that Allen mistakenly packed the strop along with his own shaving (.car when leaving the hotel in a hurry on Thursdav. The owner, who had previously occupied the room in which Allen stayed, had left the strop on the end of the bed, and admitted it would be easy for accused to pack it by mistake. In dismissing the charge, the Magistrate remarked on the unfortunate way Allen had been treated.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 March 1926, Page 9
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153CHARGE DISMISSED Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 6 March 1926, Page 9
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