POLICEMAN TURNS THIEF
GOES TO GAOL FOR A MONTH. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.) DUNEDIN. Wednesday. At the Police Court to-day, Robert Thomas Baden White, a police constable, was sentenced to a month’s hard labour for theft of £2 from a city shop. ' . Finding the door unlocked when he was on night duty, he entered and took the money from the tobacco tin. The proprietress taxed him with the theft next morning, and later accused sent back £2 10s. The matter, however, leaked out, and accused admitted the offence to his senior sergeant. The magistrate said, it was a rare kind of offence for a constable to be stealing property. It was his duty to protect the public and accused could be dealt with only by punishment.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1785, 22 July 1926, Page 5
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