WAS GIVEN A LIFT, BUT STOLE BEHIND SAMARITAN’S BACK.
CONTEMPTIBLE THIEF GETS FOURTEEN DAYS. “In considering this contemptible offence one cannot help taking into a£i count such a record as yours and you are sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment with hard labour,” said Messrs J. IE Seager and P. L. Davies, J.P.’s- to Alfred Howard, in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Howard had pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a carpenter’s plane valued at £1 3s 6d, the propertv of Mr J- Hay. •Stating the case to the Bench, ChiefDetective Gibson said: “This is a very contemptible theft. On June 2 Howard was given a lift into town in Mr Hay’s motor-car and while the owner’s back was turned he stole the plane out of the back of the car.” “What does Howard do?” asked the Bench. “Oh, he apparently wanders about from place to place,” responded Detective Gibson, handing a record of Howard's career to the Bench. “His home is in Belfast, but he has not been there for some time.” Accused had nothing to say in his defence.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17863, 3 June 1926, Page 8
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181WAS GIVEN A LIFT, BUT STOLE BEHIND SAMARITAN’S BACK. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17863, 3 June 1926, Page 8
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