CHARGE DISMISSED.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, November 29. Remarking that it would be- a waste of time to send the case on to a jury, Mr Hewitt. S.M., in the Police Court to-day dismissed a charge of theft of musical instruments, gramophone parts stationerv and other articles, valued at £lO7 6s 9d, the property of Ernest Dawson, Ltd., of Wellington, preferred against Robert Harold Court, a manufacturers’ representative, aged forty. It was alleged by the prosecution that Court had removed certain goods from a shop occupied by Ernest Dawson. Ltd., without the authority of Mr Dawson, managing director of the company while he was in Auckland. The Magistrate, after hearing the evidence of Mr Dawson and the p.-incipal witnesses for the prosecution, said it appeared to him that Mr Dawson had been in trouble and had made an arrangement whereby, when he went away. Court was to take security and it definitely fixed what he was to take That appeared to be all that had hap pened.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 932, 30 November 1933, Page 17
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