EARLY MORNING THEFTS
OFFENCES BY MILKMAN FOUR MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT, (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 30. Thefts extending from February to November of various goods, including milk bottles, milk, motor tyres, and electric light bulbs, valued in all at £4O, were cleared up when Frederick Walter Trotter, aged 50, a milkman, pleaded guilty to 17 charges, and was sentenced by the magistrate (Mr E. D. Mosley) to four months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Concerning the theft of milk bottles, the police said there were many complaints of the offence. It was easy to commit and difficult to detect. All the thefts had been committed in the early morning rounds. Charles Henry Francis Carr, aged 18, who had been associated with Trotter in a number of the thefts, was admitted to probation for two years.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22125, 1 December 1933, Page 7
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