THEFT OF DUCK
Early Morning Commotion PA NELSON, May 31. Last night at about 11 o’clock, the proprietor of the Star and Garter Hotel at Richmond, Mr M. J. Maguire, heard a commotion in his duckhouse. He got out of bed to investigate and saw a car driving away from the hotel and he was able to read the number. Mr Maguire then dressed and checked the number of his ducks. Finding one missing from the pens, he drove eight miles to Nelson where he saw parked in Trafalgar street a car bearing the number he had taken. On the floor in the back was a dead duck. When two men came to the car Maguire informed the police, who recovered the duck. The story was told by Senior Sergeant H. E. Knight in the Magistrate’s Court when Walter Sutherland Howard, aged 23 years, was convicted and fined £4 by Mr H. J. Thompson, S.M., for the theft of one duck valued at 12s‘ 6d. A formal order was made for the return of the dead duck to its owner.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27404, 1 June 1950, Page 5
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180THEFT OF DUCK Otago Daily Times, Issue 27404, 1 June 1950, Page 5
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