A Tale of Tin.

NZ Truth, Issue 405, 29 March 1913, Page 6

A Tale of Tin.

■- » When the police prosecute a man for the theft of a thing they have reason to suppose w.as stolen, they have to prove that he stole it. In the case of Edward Edwards, of Christchurch, they didn't «yen know the owner of the ingot of tin they charged Edwards with pinching, and couldn't prove that it had been boned or pinched or snavelled or prigged or commandeered by him. Edwards was shown to be an employee of the Addlngton Workshops, and tin .was stored m a part of the buildings to which he didn't have access ; m fact, no tin had been missed from this store. Yet Edwards sold an ingot of tin to Taylor ami Oakley at full market value, mentioning that he bought it from a t man. Obviously the only person whb could throw any light on the matter was Edwards himself, nml he was discretly. silent whilst Lawyer Cassidy ridiculed tho idea of theft of an artido, the alleged owner of which was not produced, and which was prima facie the property of Edwards himself. . Magistrate Bailey dismissed the information.