PARTICULARLY MEAN THEFT
MAN ADMITTED TO PROBATION (United Presp Association! WANGANUI, This Day. “This was a particularly mean theft from a friend” said the Magistrate. Mr J. H. Salmon, in admitting Alexander Heber McMinn to twelve months' probation to-day and ordering him to take out a prohibition order for the theft of £45 10s. the property of J. W T. Hamilton. The evidence showed that the two men had worked together on Para para road. Hamilton handed accused some tickets on Laughing Lass in the last race on Saturday askinr him to collect the dividends, which he was seen to do but did not give the money to Hamilton, and when spoken to by the police denied he had ever had it He expressed regret in Court for what he*had done, saying he was muddled by drink.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 February 1939, Page 8
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