EARLY MORNING THEFTS
A MILKMAN SENTENCED
(By Telegraph—Press association)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Thefts extending from February to November of various goods, including milk bottles, milk, motor tyres, electric light bulbs, in all valued at £4O, was cleared up when Frederick Walter Trotter (50), a milkman, pleaded guilty to seventeen charges and was sentenced, to four months’ hard labour. Concerning the theft of milk bottles the police said there were many complaints. The offence was easy to commit and difficult to detect. All the thefts had been committed in the early morning rounds. Charles Henry Francis Carr (18), who had been associated with Trotter in a number of thefts, was admitted to pror bation for two years.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 30 November 1933, Page 6
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