TOBACCO FOR PRISONER
MATCHES ALSO IN PARCEL Christchurch, June 25 For delivering u parcel containing tobacco, cigarette papers and matches |to a prisoner in custody, without permission. Frederick Arthur Rumble (Mr Moloney), a wood merchant, of Tuam street, was fined £5, in default ten days* imprisonment by Mr E. C. Levvey, S M.. in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch. Sub-Inspector Macnamara said that a prisoner. Basil George Knox, was before the Court on May 27. and later in the morning, when being taken away, Rumble had passed him a parcel. Rumble should have known that he was not. permitted to hand anything to a prisoner, as he had a pretty bad list himself having had 20 previous convictions, added the sub-inspector. Mr Moloney said that Rumble had been the complainant in the action against Knox, and he had been asked for the tobacco He was under the impression that it was only an offence after a person had been convicted. "I might even have done it myself in the past,” added Mr Moloney.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 26 June 1943, Page 5
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173TOBACCO FOR PRISONER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 26 June 1943, Page 5
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