THEFT OF PUMPKINS
WINTER FEED FOR STOCK MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT Two young men, Virgil Ray Adame aged 28, and his brother James Ryburn Adams, aged 18, pleaded guilty in the Magistrates Court to-day before Mr T. E. Maunsell. S.M., to the theft of pumpkins valued at £2 14s 2d. at Wakapuaka, the property of Hubert Victor O’Beirne. Senior-Sergeant C. Peterson 4eecribed the theft as most contemptible. Mr O’Beirne, a farmer, had grown a large paddock of cow pumpkins, and defendants on Monday night got into the paddock and stole a quantity of them, taking them away in a car. The position had become so bad of late that the farmer had had to put a watch over his pi'operty. He estimated his loss recently at between £2O and £3O. The matter was serious for Mr O'Beirne was depending on the feed to carry his stock over the winter. Both defendants were in steady employment, and it had been quite unnecessary for them to steal. Virgil Adams, who said that it had "really been his idea,” said that he desii'ed to make complete restitution. The Magistrate commenting that it was despicable on defendants' part to 1 have interfered with a farmer s living in this manner, fined both £l. and ordered restitution of £2 14s to be
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 14 April 1939, Page 4
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215THEFT OF PUMPKINS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 14 April 1939, Page 4
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