LABOURER’S THEFTS.
LENIENCY NOT APPRECIATED. SIX MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. (13 y Telegraph— Association.) AUCKLAND, Friday. “ Accused is apparently one ol' those men xvho do not appreciate leniency,” said Mr W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday, when Edward Randell, aged* 32, labourer, admitted the theft of a bicycle at Frankton and the theft of an -overcoat and a pair of braces at Auckland.
Senior-Detective Hall said accused had sold the bicycle and pawned the overcoat. “ There is very little known about him, except that be is a bird of passage, and lias a formidable list of previous convictions,” Mr Hall added. On behalf of accused, Air Robinson said he was "hard up" and wanted money to got io Taumarunui, where he had a job. , Accused was sentenced io six months’ imprisonment. '*
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19765, 21 December 1935, Page 12
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