WEALTHY THIEF.
A WHARF LABORER
fPer Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, last night. “This man has been employed as "a wharf laborer for the past eighteen months, and during that time stole the articles,” said the Chief Detective, when John Harold Davies, aged 30 years, pleaded guilty to stealing a cardigan jacket and a fell hat valued at 27s 6d, and two vanity vases valued at IDs, Hie property of the Commonwealth and Dominion Shipping Line. “He is a mail of means," said Detective Cummings; "lie has £209 in the Savings Bank, £2250 in the post-office, £1250 in property in Auckland, £OGO in a farm in the north, and if the: Court considers it a case fur a line-
The Magistrate (Mr. Hunt): I do not at. all. What has lie got to say? Accused: AH I can say is lam very ■sorry. It is the first tune I have seen the inside of a cell, and 1 hope it is the last.
Mr. Hunt: Twenty-one days’ imprison ment.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16806, 12 August 1925, Page 10
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