WATERSIDE THEFT
TWO WEEKS' IMPRISONMENT
"His story is obviously untrue, and I can't accept it," said Mr. W. 11. McKean. S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, when Owen Byrne, labourer and seaman, aged 40, pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing a carton of tea, valued at £2, from the Union Steam Ship Company on May 5/ Senior-Sergeant Flanagan prosecuted and Mr. Aekins appeared for accused. Evidence was given by a storekeeper of the Auckland Harbour Board and a tally clerk that accused, who had been working on the wharves as a sorter oi the Waiinarino's cargo, was seen carrying a carton of tea toward a pile of cargo in a wharf shed. When asked what he was doing, lie dropped the carton and walked away. Accused denied the theft, and stated that while sorting cargo he had found a pillaged carton of tea and was taking it to the "bird-cage" where such cargo was usually placed. Accused was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22726, 12 May 1937, Page 16
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