TRAM CONDUCTOR GAOLED
TICKETS STOLEN FROM DEPOT. SECURITY FIXED FOR APPEAL. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, July 30. A tram conductor named James Shaw Bevan Rice was sented to-day by Mr. E. Page, S.M., to imprisonment for a month and a day on a charge of stealing a block of tramway universal concession tickets, valued, at £3 10s, from the box of a fellow employee at the Kilbirnie tram depot. The case against another conductor, jointly charged, was dismissed. In imposing sentence, the magistrate remarked that sentence of one month entitled the prisoner to appeal only a question ot law. If, however, the sentence was increased, a general appeal could be made. Counsel for Rice said he would, prefer an extension, of one day. Security for appeal was fixed at £25. The magistrate remarked, before convicting accused, on the serious aspect of such cases in that they threw suspicion on other employees, as in this case on a man whom he thought wa# innocent of the charge.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1932, Page 7
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