POLICE OFFENCE
CASES IN AUCKLAND (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. In the Police, Court, Thomas Hughes, who arrived from Australia yesterday under escort, was remanded on a charge of forging a cheque for £3OO on an Auckland bank. The polico stated that further charges were pending. Dorothy Hinetnoa Miller, for theft from a suburban shop of goods valued at 27s sd, this being her fifth offence of this kind, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within two years, and to report to the probation officer.
Samuel Stewart Sharpe, 42, a clerk in the City Council office, pleaded guilty to stealing £133. He was on the permanent staff at a salary of £250 a year, and converted to his own use 133 license fees of 5s each, paid to him over a long period. He was remanded for sentence to June 29.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16373, 22 June 1927, Page 8
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145POLICE OFFENCE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16373, 22 June 1927, Page 8
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