CAUGHT AT LAST.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12825, 26 July 1912, Page 5

CAUGHT AT LAST.

A VANISHING THIiKF

(Per Press Association.)

"WELLINGTON, this day. The long arm of the law was demonstrated yesterday, when a man named George Paul was charged at the Magistrate's Court with offences committed as far back as 1908 and 1910. On 24th November, 1908, Paul, while at Himitangi, stole a bicycle Valued at £20 from a man named Fttnnell. He subsequently disposed of this at Pahiatua.; and from that time on the police lost all' trace of the misdemeanant-.' In 1910* he again came to the fore: He was working on the farm of Mr- O'Siillivan, at Mangarohgo, in the 1 -, Kinj** Country!'" He was employed at- a-' fencing-' job, but, tiring- of, thisL decided 'to depart once more. -Stealing ;a- horse fi'b'm his employer, he provided himself with; &;■ * pea ; rifle, ' a leather belt and , sheath 'fenife^' a rug, 1 and some clothing, the v^lue of these, goods being assessed Yat .£5 IBs. He rode) the horse until it was? tired, and then turned it loose. * All'* tlie pillaged' good's he stored in the, Te •Klliti ! :'i'ailwaV'*Ystation., and later oh tli'ey : Ai' t ere-*sold I -**ls l l6st luggage. He was next .arreted pn a, charge of house-breaking .at ■N'efet'n. " Two' -charges were preferred--' against* him-- ''yesterday morning, and on each he was sentenced to* one' .month's -im,pris6mnenk 'He is to be taken' before theYShpreme Court on the Nelson charge. .