THEFT OF OVERCOAT.
TAKEN FROM DANCE HALL. YOUNG MAN FINED £5. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON, Friday. "I had no criminal intention, but took the coat as an act of revenge," said John Hodgson, 26, who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing an overcoat, valued at £4 10s, the property of Ernest Bogun, in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court today. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney said accused took the coat from a dance hall in Hamilton East on Saturday. When arrested ho said ho had had his own coat stolen some weeks before, and he took Bogun's coat to make up for the loss of his own. Accused said he had hitherto borne a stainless character, and desired that his name should be suppressed. The magistrate, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., said he had no reason to disbelieve accused's story, but it would be a sorry state of society if people wero permitted to steal each other's property. Accused was fined £5. His request for the suppression of his name was refused.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20252, 11 May 1929, Page 14
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