GUILTY OF RECEIVING
A MISSING SAXOPHONE. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Wednesday. When the trial of Harold: Gordon Stanley Wolfe, charged with theft of a 'saxophone, valued at £43, and alternoltive'ly with receiving it knowing it to have been stolen, was resumed in the Supreme Court here yesterday. His Honor Mr Justice Herd,man said there was no evidence that would connect accused with 'the theft of the saxophone from Lewis R. Eady and •Son, but there was also an absence of any explanation from acculsed,, except the statement he made from the dock, how the instrument came into his possession. Accused had .said it Avas given to him by a man in an hotel bar. After a short retirement the jury returned a verdict of guilty on the charge of receiving. Sentence was deferred until next Monday.
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1788, 29 July 1926, Page 8
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