RANK INGRATITUDE.
ATTEMPT TO SELL BORROWED BICYCLE. CHRISTCHURCH, August 14. Described as a “ champion mean man,” Andrew Deer, aged 29, was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment with hard labour by Mr H. A. Young, S.M., this morning for the theft of a bicycle. Chief Detective Carroll said that the accused had been befriended by a man. who had given him a bed, meals, and work. He also gave him recommendations for work to two men and lent him a bicycle on which to go to one of the jobs. The accused was found by a constable trying to sell the bicycle to a dealer. .He told the constable that he was buying the bicycle, but inquiries showed that the facts were to the contrary. -" He has a long list,” added the chief detective, “ including manslaughter, forgery, breaking and entering. Besides being a thief he is a champion mean man.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3884, 21 August 1928, Page 36
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149RANK INGRATITUDE. Otago Witness, Issue 3884, 21 August 1928, Page 36
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