Receiver of Stolen Silk Sent to Gaol
THEFTS FROM ARAWA WOULD NOT GIVE AWAY ACCOMPLICE Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. Fourteen days’ imprisonment was the sentence imposed to-day on Sidney George Tyson, aged 22, who pleaded guilty to receiving 2 % yards of art silk, valued at £l, the property of the Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, knowing the material to have been dishonestly obtained. Tyson was a seaman on the Arawa, on the arrival of which vessel at Auckland recently it was found that silk valued at £SOO had been pillaged. The Auckland police were advised. Accused had disposed of some of the silk, and when he was interviewed by the police here yesterday, Tyson admitted having received it from another member of the crew whose name he •would not disclose. An order was made for the accused to be placed aboard the vessel if she sails from the Dominion before the expiration of his sentence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 410, 19 July 1928, Page 15
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