THEFT OF AN OVERCOAT
OWNER APPROACHED TO BUY TERM OF IMPRISONMENT [from our own correspondent] TAIHAPE, Saturday When George William Dinester was convicted of the theft of one overcoat, valued at £2 19s 6d, in the Magistrate's Court at Taihape to-day, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, ho told the Bench that the coat had been recovered, and he thought that the sentence was too heavy for "nothing at all." Ho added that he was drunk when he took the coat from the shop of a Taihape mercer. Accused admitted trying to sell tho coat in a hotel to a man who turned out to be the owner of the stolen garment. The shopkeeper failed to recognise his own coat at the time, arid it was not until next day that he discovered his loss.
The police said accused was wearing the coat when arrested at Mangaweka. He was a man with a list of previous convictions and was addicted to drinking methylated spirits. An order was made for the return of tho coat to its rightful owner.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22487, 3 August 1936, Page 12
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