THEFT OF WATCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26704, 25 February 1948, Page 7

THEFT OF WATCH

fellow boarder robbed rnnvicted on a charge of stealing , a a+pb nt a city boarding establishment, Fdward C oo mb e, a labourer, aged 22, was c,npri £lO when he appeared before (> ned o a f Haub and T. G. Jamieson, Sees at the H peace, in the City Police rourt yesterday. Coombe was ordered to make restitution of £2. the price paid by ™ second-hand dealer to whom he sold th The 3 complainant was a visitor to the centenary, said Chief Detective Hall, and on the morning of January 25 he went out to buy a newspaper. . When he returned, his watch was missing. Detective K. Jefferies traced the watch to a secondhand dealer, and when interviewed the defendant admitted the (heft and the disposal of the watch. The watch was valued at £lO. Theft of Pushchair Alleged Bail was allowed in the sum of £SO, and one surety of £SO, when Ernest Arthur Tremere Johnstone, a labourer, aged 33 was remanded on a charge alleging the theft of a child's pushchair valued at £6. He will appear on March 1. Drunkenness Charges On charge of drunkenness, Archibald John Kirk, a labourer, aged 60. John McDougall Arnell, a labourer, aged 48, and Alexander Gilchrist, a labourer, aged 70, were each fined £l.