STOLE AN OVERCOAT
FORMER IMPERIAL OFFICER Press Association DUNEDIN, Friday. Once a high officer in the Imperial Army, and described by his counsel as “an English gentleman when sober, and an English pest when drunk,” Edmund Harry Robert Lister appeared in the Dunedin Police Court today on a charge of stealing an overcoat valued at £5, which he borrowed and pawned. Air. White, for accused, stated that he was a “remittance man” of gentle birth, for whom counsel had acted under a power of attorney. During the last week Lister broke out on a drinking bout. On previous occasions, when drinking, at which time counsel refused him money, he had pawned goods, well knowing that his solicitor would redeem them. Had counsel known that this coat had been pawned, he would have redeemed it. Describing the offence as an act of drunken folly, the magistrate adjourned the charge for 12 months, to. be called if Lister’s conduct was unsatisfactory.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 14
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159STOLE AN OVERCOAT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 14
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