A CURIOUS CASE
IMAN FOUND IN ENGINE SHEDJ WORKSHOP EMPLOYEE’S STORY* Ter Association. DUNEDIN, August 13. A curious case was heard in tho Police Court on Saturday morning, when Joseph Patrick Mahoney, nn employee at Hillside railway workshops, was charged with having been found by night without lawful excuse in the engine sheds and manipulating the levers and brakes of an engine. The evidence disclosed that accused had no malicious intent or any desire to interfere with the working of the engine. His excuse was that he desired, as a mechanic, to examine a certain type of engine, and it had been his practice on the West Coast, where he recently lived, to visit the sheds there for that purpose. The magistrate imposed a fine of 40s, in default seven days’ imprisonment, and stated that drink was evi* dentlv the cause of his action.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12526, 16 August 1926, Page 6
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144A CURIOUS CASE New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12526, 16 August 1926, Page 6
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