LABOURER’S OFFENCE
CASE IN WELLINGTON. MAGISTRATE’S CENSURE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 22. “This class of offence is merely more refined pickpocketing by enticing a man into a. side street and apparently, when indulging in horseplay and under the cover of the horseplay, going through his pockets,” said Mr J. IT. Luxford, S.M., when dealing with Eric John Jones, aged 38, a labourer and hawker, for the theft from the person of D. L. B. Ross of a tobacco tin containing two £1 notes, an art union ticket, and a war discharge certificate of a total value of £2 Is. “It is a very serious matter and one 1 cannot pass over leniently,” the Magistrate said. He imposed .three months’ hard labour. Ross, who is aged 65, said that he was asked if he was “Sullivan.” This ended in an apology and an invitation to a drink with two others, and then the men began showing him wrestling holds. He found his tin had gone. He met a policeman and they managed to catch one of the men with the tin on him. The Magistrate: We will have to call this one “the grab” instead of “tile crab.” Ross said he had about 18s in his trousers pocket, and that was cleaned out, too.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 4
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