THEFTS OF PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS
TERM OF IMPRISONMENT BORROWING FROM BUSINESS PEOPLE lUnited Press Association! WELLINGTON, This Day. “In your case it seems that you follow a life of sponging and ne’er do well, and it is impossible to extend any ltuiency to you,” said the Magistrate, Mr Luxford, to Harold Magner, aged 34 years, salesman, who pleaded guilty to two charge* involv. in£ the theft of portable typewriters. The sentence wag three months imprisonment on each charge. Accused obtained the machines on the representation of wanting to purchase one. I’hey were recovered from a pawnbrokers. He was remanded on a charge of obtaining £2 l»v means of false pretences. Statements made by the police indicated that accused was from England and since he had been in Wellington he had borrowed from various business people to an amount aggregating about £looo'.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 28 August 1939, Page 6
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140THEFTS OF PORTABLE TYPEWRITERS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 28 August 1939, Page 6
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