THEFT FROM CAFE
OFFENCE BY STOREMAN - -J BOWL DROPPED IN STREET ' l\■ "It was just a, drinking escapade." said Mr. Aekins in the Police Court yesterday, on behalf of Ralph Percy Goodwill, '.storemari, aged 19, who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing two knives, a fork, a glass, a sugar bowl and a sauce bottle, valued at 6s, / the property of Lawrence Hall, on Saturday. Senior-Sergeant Calwell said a constable heard accused drop a glass sugar bowl in the street, and when he accosted accused ho found the other articles in - his possession. They had been stolen from an all-night cafe. Accused was at present on probation for another offence, added Mr. Fox, but had probably been drinking. Warning accused that he must comply with the terras of his probation, the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, convicted him and ordered him to come up for sentence within six months if called on.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22976, 2 March 1938, Page 18
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