MISLAID HANDBAG
FOUND IN EMPTY HOUSE YOUNG MAN ADMITS THEFT [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON. Thursday "This is not a case of deliberate theft," said Detective A. J. White in the Hamilton Police Court to-day, when Eric Alfred Williams, aged 23, a farm labourer, pleaded guilty to stealing a handbag and its contents, valued at £2, the property of Elsie Healy. Accused made a voluntary appearance.
Mr. White said the handbag had been left in an empty house in error, and when accused inspected the dwelling shortly afterward with a view to renting it, he found it there. Accused was very poor, and he succumbed to the temptation of using the 28s 6d which the bag contained. He was a married man. Accused had been previously convicted. , . . The presiding justices admitted accused to probation for six months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21911, 21 September 1934, Page 13
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