SENT TO GAOL “FOR MEAN SORT OF THEFT.”
! “It was a pretty mean sort of theft—t stealing from a man who had befriended you,” said Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., this morning, in sentencing Selwyn George Maynard to one month’s imprisonment for having stolen two razors from Alexander Meiklejohn. The accused, a married man, living apart from his wife, was staying with Meiklejohn when he took the razors and sold them to a second-hand dealer. Sub-Inspector O’Hara said that Maynard xvas apparently hard up and out of work. The accused had entered his wife's house during her absence and took away pretty well everything • in the place, including the children’s I clothing. “That shoe’s what sort of man he is,” said the Sub-inspector, who added that this was not Maynard's first appearance in Court. The accused had nothing to say, and the Magistrate, with the comment quoted, sent him to gaol.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19134, 29 July 1930, Page 2
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