THEFT OF SUIT
SIX WEEKS’ IMPRISONMENT YOUNG MAN IN TROUBLE Charged with the theft of a suit of clothes valued at £l3. Kenneth Hayward, a circus hand, aged 25, was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour by Messrs H. Barth and J. C. Aitken, justices of the peace, in the Magistrate s, Court yesterdav. Chief Detective Hall said that the complainant, who was also a member of the circus, missed the suit from the circus train on December 22. The clothing was located in a second-hand shop by Detective C. J. Evans to whom tlie defendant later admitted the theft. The proprietor of the circus had stated that he would not take Hayward back in any circumstances, Mr Hall added. Passing sentence, Mr Barth said that he had to consider the previous convictions which had been entered against the accused for a similar type of offence. Fine Imposed Samuel McGrath, a labourer aged 35, was fined £5 for using obscene language in Dowling street early yesterday morning.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27273, 27 December 1949, Page 2
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169THEFT OF SUIT Otago Daily Times, Issue 27273, 27 December 1949, Page 2
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