THEFTS FROM HOTELS
LABOURER APPREHENDED POLICEMEN FOOTBALLE RS GAOL ON THREE COUNTS (Por Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The fact of three members of the Auckland police being included in the Auckland travelling Rugby team was responsible for the appearance in court of an hotel thief, Basil Goodwin Breeze, aged 311 years, a labourer, who came to Wellington from Masterton in response to notification by a registry office that he had got a job on a farm at Taihape.
The story told was that the accused came by taxi and consumed a fair amount of liquor on the road.
He visited some hotels in Wellington and had more liquor and later went to the servants’ quarters of the Britannia Plotcl and took several sums of money. Pic then went to the Empire Hotel, but was there discovered in suspicious circumstances by one of the footballer policemen.
The accused, who was already on probation for theft, was convicted and sentenced to gaol for a month on each of three charges, the terms to be concurrent.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19732, 10 September 1938, Page 8
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