STOLEN HARESKINS.
MAN ADMITS RECEIVING. MISSED ON SHIPBOARD. [»Y TELEC-RATH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] DUNEDIN. Sunday. A charge of having received from some person unknown 111b. of hareskins, valued at £4 4s 4d, the property of the New Zealand Shipping Company, well knowing they had been stolen, was preferred against William Michael Whitty in the Police Court yesterday. Accused pleaded guilty. Chief-Detective Cameron said accused was employed on the steamer Dorset, into which a number of bales of skins were being loaded. It was discovered that one bale had been cut open and was 141b. short in weight. Accused had taken 111b. of tlieso skins, by a strange chance, to the people who had shipped them. 110 did not get any money, but left the skins there, and was to call back. Detectives were summoned, and while accused denied stealing the skins, hf. admitted he had got them from some person knowing they were stolen. fie was a married man, 48 years of ago. The case was adjourned until Wednesday. An application for the suppression of accused's name was refused.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20071, 8 October 1928, Page 12
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178STOLEN HARESKINS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20071, 8 October 1928, Page 12
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