THEFT OF OVERCOAT
"I was hard up against it at tho time, and I took the coat in desperation," said Ronald Matthew Rackley, aged 36, a member of the crew of the steamer Tainui, when charged in the Police Court yesterday with tho theft, at Wellington on' September 10, of an overcoat valued at £6.
The magistrate, Mr. W. 11. McKean, imposed a lino of £4, in default one month's imprisonment. Tho restitution of 10s received from a pawnbroker was ordered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22877, 4 November 1937, Page 16
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81THEFT OF OVERCOAT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22877, 4 November 1937, Page 16
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