GOLD IN CHOCOLATES.
A CHRISTCHURCH CASE. Per Press Association. GREYMOUTH, Feb. 23. A young married man, aged 39, a metallurgist, pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to a charge of theft of gold valued at £6 14s 9d, the property of his employers, a goldmining company. Accused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twele months.
The evidence showed that accused placed five small pieces of gold in the interior of chocolates for the purpose of forwarding them to his brother a.t Dunedin, who was also an assayist, allegedly for the purpose of a check assay. A parcel containing the chocolates and gold, however, was lost by accused’s wife and was picked up in a shop by a little girl, who gave the chocolates to an invalid woman for her twenty-first birthday. The gold was found when the woman struck a metallic substance while eating one of the sweet 6, which she then handed to the police. The Magistrate held the opinion that the actions of accused were not those of an honest man. Suppression, of accused’s name was ordered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 72, 24 February 1937, Page 4
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