UNGRATEFUL YOUTH STEALS FROM MAN WHO GAVE HIM MEAL, MONEY.
/ (Special to the “ Star.”) WANGANUI, June 24. j On June 13 a seventeen-year-old youth named Eric Roland Cherry went aboard the steamer Kapiti and visited a steward named Roper. Roper provided him with a meal of sandwiches to take away and two shillings in money. In return for this hospitality Cherry took Roper's Post Office Savings Bank account book and two or three withdrawal slips which it contained. Shortly after he made out the receipts at the Post Office he was arrested. Evidence was called at the Court to prove that the youth made out the documents with the intention of withdrawing £3O. He also intimated to the postal official that he desired the account of Roper transferred from Wellington to Wanganui. Accused -pleaded guilty to forging the document and was committed to the Wellington Supreme Court for sentence.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17881, 24 June 1926, Page 9
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149UNGRATEFUL YOUTH STEALS FROM MAN WHO GAVE HIM MEAL, MONEY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17881, 24 June 1926, Page 9
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