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Charges of Stealing Press Association. —Copyright. Dunedin, May 4. An astonishing story of succumbing to an unusual temptation was related in the Police Court when William Easton and Marion Easton, his wife, Robert Pryde Turnbull and Edward Tobin pleaded ' guilty, the first two to stealing £45 and the others to receiving a part of the money. The facts related were that Easton, who Is unemployed, was cleaning windows for complainant and asked for and obtained a pah- of old shoes. When he returned home he and his wife and the others found £45 in one shoe, where the 'complainant had put the notes and forgotten them. All were unemployed and the money was divided. j. The magistrate said that in view of "these peculiar circumstances the convicted men were ordered to come up for sentence if required. The charge against the woman, who is only 18 years old, was dismissed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 236, 6 May 1933, Page 2
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