THEFT OF FALSE TEETH.
IMPRISONMENT FOR SAILOR. Pleading guilt v to a charge of stealing a set of false teeth, valued at i!2O. belonging to a woman, Cecil Cripps, a sea man on 11.M.5. Laburnum, was senlcneod to one month's imprisonment in the Police Court on Saturday. Provision was made, for suspension of the sentence if accused could be, sent back to England befoie its expiration. (. hicf-Detectivo Hammond said accused first saw the teeth on a window-ledge of the house and remarked upon the amount of gold they contained. He sold the plate to a pawnbroker, who broke it up. but found the teeth wen; only I hinly-i oated with gold. The plate was damaged to (ho extent, of U4 10s Cripps was at present serving a sentence of 21 days imposed by his commanding oflii-er for Ihe I hel't, of some clot hing at Devonport. He was lo bo sent back to England at the first Opportunity.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20137, 24 December 1928, Page 12
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