CHARGES OF THEFT
LABOURER AND PLUMBER SENT TO PRISON (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 20. Arrested by a detective early on Tuesday morning as they were about to break open a penny-in-the-slot telephone cash container, Arthur Albert Edward Pink, aged 24, a labourer, and Charles Joseph Seymour Smith, aged 27, a plumber, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court today. Pink was charged with five counts of wilfully damaging telephones and also the theft of £l7 15/-, the property of the Postmaster-General, and jointly with Smith, Pink faced eight charges of mischief and eight of theft of a total sum of £l2. Both pleaded guilty. The police said the two men had been employed as canvassers selling polishes. Early one morning they set out in Pink’s car to break open the suburban telephone cash containers and were caught by the police night patrol. Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., sentenced Pink to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour on each of the four charges, to be cumulative. He sentenced Smith to three months’ imprisonment with hard labour on each of three charges, to be cumulative. Each was convicted on the other charges and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within two years.
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Southland Times, Issue 23540, 21 June 1938, Page 3
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