ALLEGED THEFT.
"HAND IN WRONG POCKET.” A charge of .stealing £2 Ss at Te Awamutu on March 13. wa.-, denied by Thomas Strange, s>ged 19, before Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M.. at. the Auckland Court on Wednesday. Jl was staled on accused’s behalf that while paying a visit to Te Awamutu be became “paralytieall.v drunk,” and removed the money from his bed mate's trousers to the dressing table before retiring for the night, mistaking the trousers for his own. He s/iuared accounts with his companion next morning. however, and was surprised to find that the latter had laid an information As accused was subject at the lime to the terms of a probationary license a further charge, /which would he dependent on the outcome of the theft charge, was laid against him of having committed a breach of bis probation order. Remarking that the case did not seem to be one of theft, the magistrate remanded accused to appear at Te Awamutu in a week's iinto.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1371, 24 March 1923, Page 5
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