THEFT OF GENERATOR
SHOWMAN BEFORE COURT (From Our Oicn Correspondent) HAMILTON, Today. Described as a picture theatre proprietor at Port Albert, Alfred Nicholas Thomas, aged 25, married, was charged in the Police Court today that he obtained an electric generator, valued at £25, from Carrick Nisbet, a motor electrician, on March 28, 1927, by a false pretence. The evidence showed that the generator originally belonged to Joseph William Chirney, who asked Nisbet to sell it. Nisbet said that accused had arranged with Chirney to purchase the generator, which was taken away and subsequently changed hands. In a statement to the police accused said that Nisbet gave him delivery of the generator and the matter of payment was to be settled between Nisbet and the purchaser. Mr. W. J. King entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of accused, who was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Detective Thomson said the generator was now in possession of Owen Bagnall, Te Uku, farmer, who ran a picture show. He was anxious to take it away, as no pictures had been shown in the district. The magistrate said he could not give an order for possession, as the case was now out of his jurisdiction. “It won’t hurt them to go without pictures for a month or so,” he added.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 713, 12 July 1929, Page 11
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219THEFT OF GENERATOR Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 713, 12 July 1929, Page 11
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