Constable’s Suspicions Justified
MAN ACCOSTED IN STREET PROVES TO BE THIEF Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. Last Night. suspicions led Constable G. W. Alt> to accost William Anderson in the street yesterday afternoon. Anderson was carrying a bag and refused to say anything about it. He was taken to police station and the bag, on examination, was found to contain surgical instruments. Anderson still refused to say anything at all. These circumstances were described by Detective-Sergeant T. E. Holmes when Anderson, a bootmaker, appeared in the Magistrate's Court this morning. Anderson was charged with stealing a bag containing medical instruments and supplies valued at £l2, the property of Francis Oswald Bennett. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months imprisonment with hard labour. Detective-Sergeant Holmes said that Dr. Bennett said that the bag had been in his car for most of the day and that he did not know when it had been taken. If the doctor had had an emergency call the results might have been serious, concluded the detective-ser-geant. Anderson had a long list. “You seem to be quite confirmed in your ideas of what is yours and what is not.” commented the Magistrate, Mr E. C. Levvey. :n imposing sentence.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 87, 13 April 1938, Page 6
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