THEFT FROM A STEAMER
ONE SIAN SENT TO GAOL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Dee. 29. Jack Stanley Miles, ship’s baker, and Thomas Bailey Wilson, labourer, were found on the wharf with lOOlbs of flour and 11 tine of condensed milk. They appeared before the Police Court charged with the theft of goods from th© steamer Mahana. Miles was sentenced to 14 days’ im prisonment and to be placed on board if the vessel sailed sooner. The othei man got the benefit of the doubt as to his knowledge that the goods were stolen. The goods were secreted in the side-car of a motor cycle. For the theft of a gramophone valued at £5 from a house where he had spent the evening and apparently had some drink, a fireman, Edward Dott, who had a good character from his ship, was fined £2.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1926, Page 2
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