ARREST LEADS TO DOUBLE CHARGE.
OFFENDER RECEIVES LIGHT PENALTY, (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The long arm of the law encompassed James Anthony Coulthard ; aged 32, a watersider, when he was , arrested last week on a charge of stealing a gold watch, it being found that he had been wanted since 1921 on a charge of failing to account for £3O 13s, to the secretary of the Millerton Miners’ Union. All trace of him was lost when he left the district shortly after the offence was committed.
The police said that Coulthard had told the secretary that the money had been stolen from him. This was not true, and when inquiries were made he cleared out. , The accused was fined £5 for stealing th’e watch, and was convicted and ordered to come up if called upon within two years on the old offence.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 December 1932, Page 5
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