AN OLD OFFENCE.
Per Press Association
WELLINGTON, Dec. 20. 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 £2O 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 he had told the secretary that the :money had been stolen from him. This was not true and when inquiries were made he cleared out. Accused was fined £5 for stealing the watch and convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years on the old offence.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 20, 20 December 1932, Page 2
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137AN OLD OFFENCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 20, 20 December 1932, Page 2
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