TRUCK OUTSIDE PRISON
SUSPICIONS AROUSED THEFT OF OAT SHEAVES [by telegraph—press association] CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday "We have every reason to believe that the sheaves were not the object of lii.s visit, or the reason for the truck being there," said Detective-Sergeant Holmes in the Magistrate's Court today when Henry Herbert Pearce pleaded guilty to a cliargo of stealing a number of oat sheaves valued at 2s (3d, the property of the ControllerGeneral of Prisons. Pearce was fined £5, in default 30 days' imprisonment, by Mr. E. C. Levvev, S.M. Detective-Sergeant Holmes said that the farm manager at the Paparua prison saw a truck outside the prison grounds, ami his suspicions were aroused. The manager and a warder accosted Pearce, who said he had got lost in the dark; as he was not familiar with the neighbourhood. He admitted that he stole a number of sheaves. "It is .strange that he got lost, as he is well known at the prison," concluded the detective-sergeant. Asked if he had anything to say, Pearce replied that if it had been anyone else nothing would have been said. In imposing sentence, the magistrate said Pearce apparently knew the inside of the neighbourhood well.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22896, 26 November 1937, Page 14
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198TRUCK OUTSIDE PRISON New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22896, 26 November 1937, Page 14
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