MEAN PICKPOCKETING

NZ Truth, 7 February 1925, Page 5

MEAN PICKPOCKETING

— : "♦ : — ~ ■ ! Workmen's Clothes Rifled Apprentice Loses Twopence and His Tram Ticket. A particularly mean and contemptible theft was revealed m Auckland jn the evidence adduced against Charles Percy Linkhorn, accused of stealing 8/- in > money, a tin of tobacco, three tram concession cards and a wallet to the value of 15/- to which he pleaded not guilty. . The theft was committed m a workmen's dressing shed on a construction job at the corner of Queen and Rutland Street's, where the carpenter, the plasterer, the laborer arid the apprentice carpenter donned their dungarees and hung their suits. They certainly did not possess heavily laden purses. The carpenter's apprentice, for instance, had only twopence and a tram concession ticket, both of which were stolen. The plumber had 5/- stolen and the plasterer lost 2/- and his tobacco. The accused,^ who had. been seen; about on the job, was found later drinking m an hotel. The Chief Detective stated that accused, who was ""also charged with breach of his probation order, had been> connected with several buildings at which similar petty thefts had been committed. The thefts were as rrieari as they were contemptible, and were liable to put workmen to no end of inconvenience. ■"-.'.-" The Bench concurred and sent Linkhorn to prison for a month on, each charge cumulative.