DEAL IN CHESSMEN
SOLD SET THEN STOLE IT BACK TELEGRAPHIST’S THEFT Selling a set of chessmen twice over brought Charles Edward Champion to the Police Court this morning on a charge of theft. He was fined £2, in default seven days’ imprisonment. I'UIAMPION, described as a tele x--* graphist, aged 36, was charged with the theft of a set of chessmen and a propelling pencil valued at ss. Mr. Fennell entered a plea of not guilty. Mav Woolrich, a dealer, ot Hobson Street, said that accused had visited her shop with an assortment of articles, including the chessmen and the pencil. She had given him os for them, and then found that the chessmen had disappeared from her counter while she was entering up the sale, and accused was still in the shop. He had given a fictitious address, and the name of Edward said that he had later sold the chessmen for 15s. He admitted taking them, but said that they were his property, and that they were not inc’uded in the goods he had sold to the woman. , ~ Remarking that he did not believe accused's tale. Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.. imposed the tin©. J I
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 828, 23 November 1929, Page 1
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198DEAL IN CHESSMEN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 828, 23 November 1929, Page 1
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