BICYCLE THIEVING.
OFFENDER IMPRISONED. DETERRENT TO OTHERS. “ Bicycle stealing" in Hamilton' is very prevalent and .most cases are hard to * detect,” - •commented DetectiveSergeant -J, -Thompson lit the Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton yesterday when Frederick Watson, 'aged 30, single, pleaded guilty‘to a'charge of the theft of a bicycle, the properly of Samuel Victor Crowlutrst, Mr. S. L. 'Paterson, 3.M., was on llic bench. In reviewing the circumstances Detective Thompson staled that accused removed the bicycle from outside a theatre in Hamillon on the evening of December 4 and next day ,attempted to soil’the machine to a dealer In Morrlnsville. When arrested yesterday by Constable C. Williams accused admitted the theft. Accused had been in trouble before. In Imposing a sentence of 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour His Worship staled that lie imposed the term of imprisonment as a deterrent to others.
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Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19564, 1 May 1935, Page 2
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