WAIPAWA.
At the Magistrate’s Court on Monday, before Messrs S. Johnson and A. Todd, justices, John Hargreaves, alias Thomas Cavanagh, was charged with stealing £1 8s 6d, the property of H. G. Baker, at the Tavistock Hotel, on Saturday night. It was shown that accused left Ms bedroom and entered that of informant, from whose clothes he abstracted tho money. He was found by the landlord in the room with a light, and handed over to the police, the money baing found upon him, although he had nothing the night before. He now pleaded guilty, and said he took it an hour before and went back intending to return it. Although be had not been long in the colony he was already known to the police. He was ordered to be imprisoned in Napier gaol for two months with hard labor. The estate of Mr T. F. Moore, comprising stock-in-trade of a chemist, fancy goods, furniture, &c., is to be sold by auction on Tuesday, 3rd March.— Own Correspondent.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12379, 24 February 1903, Page 3
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169WAIPAWA. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12379, 24 February 1903, Page 3
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