THEFT FROM WAREHOUSE
PROBATION REFUSED I United Press Asaoe.ia-tK.rr DUNEDIN. 27th February. Irvine Watson Cowie was sentenced to four months’ reformative detention for the theft of goods valued at £22 from Messrs Bing, Harris, and Co., in whose warehouse he was a departmental manager. Rejecting counsel’s plea for probation on the ground that the offences synchronised with the onset of a disease, the Magistrate said it was systematic thieving over a period. Information concerning the medical aspect could be placed before the Prisons Board- •■ijjf
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 28 February 1939, Page 9
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85THEFT FROM WAREHOUSE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 28 February 1939, Page 9
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