MELBOURNE SCANDAL
-EX-M.L.A. COMMITTED FOB - TRIAL. MELBOURNE, April 8. The latest Melbourne scandal concerns an ex-member of the Legislative Amenably, Alexander Frederick Parker, who has been committed for trial on a fcharge of having broken into Messrs Coutts Bros.’ shirt factory, and stolen 43 dozen shirts, valued at £lB5. Detective Fowler- said that shirt* jjuken from, the factory had been found m, the possession of accused. Hie explanation was that he had bought thegn from a man who had called- upon him one morning. He did not know the man and ho could not produce any docket' or 'receipt to substantiate his statement. Counsel for Parker, said that bo would produce witnesses to testify as to Parker’s whereabouts on the night of the robbery; also a witness to substantiate Parker’s story of a man caning at business places offering shirts for sale, and representing that he was from the Ooubra Shirt Company, on the same date as Parker said he had called on him. There was also the fact that Parker had openly displayed these shirts in his Melbourne shop window; -
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11190, 21 April 1922, Page 3
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181MELBOURNE SCANDAL New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11190, 21 April 1922, Page 3
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