MUST PAY BACK MONEY
MAN WHO STOLE FROM BEDROOM “It was a mean theft,” said Chief - Detective Hammond, when Benjamin Peter Martinson admitted at the Police Court yesterday that he had stolen from the coat pocket of a fellow boarder at a Wellington lodging house. Martinson, a labourer aged 21, was charged with stealing a wallet containing a dollar bill and a pound note of a total value of £2 ss, and belonging to Stanley Jones. According to the chief-detective, Martinson had stolen the wallet from the coat of a fellow boarder which had been left in the bedroom. Since coming to Auckland the man had married and was Jiving at Kohimarama, though he had no work to do. ■ Mr. Hall Skelton, for Martinson, reminded the court that accused liaa been locked up for four days. Martinson was ordered to come up for sentence on June 17 and make restitution meanwhile. “If you have paid back the money and are working by then you need not appear,” added Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 616, 19 March 1929, Page 13
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