"A MAN OF 'MEANS."
WHARF LABOURER'S MONEY.
IMPRISONMENT FOR THEFT.
CARDIGAN AND VANITY CASES.
"This'man has been employed as a wharf labourer for the past 18 months and during that time stole the articles," said the chief detective when John Harold Davies, aged 30, pleaded guilty to stealing a cardigan jacket and a felt hat valued at 27s 6d, and two vanity cases valued at 10s, the property of the Commonwealth and Dominion Shipping Line. "He is a man of means," said Mr. Cummings. "He has £2OO in the Savings Bank, £252 in the Post Office, £1250 in a property in Auckland, and £BOO in a farm 'in the North, and if the Court considers it a case for a fine —." Mr. Hunt: Ido not at, all. What has he got to say ? Accused: All I can say is I am very sorry. It is the first time I havo seen the inside of a cell and I hope it is .the last. ' Mr. Hunt: Twenty-one days' imprisonment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19094, 12 August 1925, Page 17
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