A BICYCLE THEFT
SIX MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND, May 17. Pleading guilty to the theft of 19 bicycles, mostly belonging to relief workers, Austral Felix Broad, aged 47. to-dsiy was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Counsel said accused was a bookkeeper who had worked well for city firms until he was retrenched in 1923. He had gradually been reduced to poverty and stealing one cycle. He had found it easy to sell it and so stole more. The police said that the cycles had been sold to 19 different dealers. The Magistrate said that Imprisonment was the only possible thing in the circumstances. He ordered the cycles to be returned to their owners, and declined to make any orders for restitution to the dealers.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19802, 18 May 1934, Page 14
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126A BICYCLE THEFT Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19802, 18 May 1934, Page 14
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