ALLEGED THEFT,
CLERK BEFORE COURT. SUPPRESSION OF NAME REFUSED. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. In the Magistrate’s Court Thique John Lagan, aged 34, clerk, came before Mr Mosley, S.M., charged with the theft of a postal packet containing £1 6s in postal notes, the property of the Postmaster-GeneraL He was remanded till January 15. Counsel asked for the interim suppression of accused’s name in view of family circumstances. The Magistrate said if he acceded to the request he would be laying down a rule that all names were to be suppressed before the Anal hearing. That was too much to expect, and he was not going to make a precedent. Bail was allowed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17605, 9 January 1929, Page 8
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