THEFT CHARGE

Southland Times, Issue 22042, 15 June 1933, Page 7

THEFT CHARGE

REHEARING REFUSED. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 14. An application for a rehearing of a theft charge dealt with in December, 1929, was refused by Mr Page, S.M., to-day on the ground that there had been unreasonable delay in making it. He added that the affidavits that had been filed contained little relevant matter that had not come before the Court at the hearing. The application was on behalf of Rudolph von Gruber who was convicted on a charge of stealing a pair of field glasses and was fined at the time £2 with £5 18/costs. In an affidavit Gruber explained the delay by the statement that he was then resident in Auckland. He found the legal charges beyond him and the position was complicated by the fact he was advised he would have to come to Wellington for a rehearing. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 14. David Rosenthal, alias David Ross, pleaded not guilty to-day and was committed for trial on two charges of obtaining goods valued at £l5B 18/2 from Reginald G. Kain by false pretences and a charge of stealing £36 6/7 in money the property of Alfred George Barton. It was alleged that accused went to Kain’s warehouse in Wellington and on the representation that the goods he was ordering were for Mr Kerslake in Masterton, obtained goods valued at £lOB and that he then went to Auckland and obtained goods to the value of £5O 18/2 by representing, he was Kerslake, afterwards conducting auction sales in towns on,the East Coast and selling the goods at rates below cost and never accounting to Kain for the money.