ALLEGED THEFT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 6 October 1921, Page 5

ALLEGED THEFT

GOODS PEOM WHARF SHEDS

(BY TELEGRAPH —PKESS ASSOCIATION.)

AUCKLAND, Oct. 5. William Lankshear Waters (36) and Herbert Cummins (41), tally clerks, pleaded not guilty and were committed for trial- on charges of ifte theft of goods of a total value of nearly £500 from wharf sheds.

William Campton, who on Monday pleaded .guilty to the theft of goods, gave evidence' that all three were concerned and divided the spoil. Cases and bales were-loaded on his van with other goods, Waters taking the storekeeper for a walk while the goods were loaded, and talking to the checking clerk while the goods were passed.