THEFT FROM MATES
A CURIOUS EXCUSE. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) HAMILTON, Monday. An admission that he had stolen £2 3s 4d from Arthur Edwin Macfie and 10« lid from John Kennedy was made by" John Fagan, aged 40, before Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate’s Court this morning. Senior Sergeant Sweeney said Fagan. Macfie and Kennedy were employd by a dairyman near Hamilton. Money was missed by Macfie and Kennedy and Fagan was suspected. When interviewed accused admitted the theft and explained that he took the mony because somone had stolen £1 from him. The senior sregeant said accused was a hard-working man who had been employed in the district for some years. He had not been previously convicted. Accusd was admitted to probation for 12 months.
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Waipa Post, Volume 37, Issue 2219, 9 October 1928, Page 4
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