“SUNDAY MORNING PROWLER”
BILLY OF MILK TAKEN. “This is one of those contemptible theft cases that we sometimes have before us.” said fjub-Inspector McCarthy at the Police Court this morning, when George Amos Crisp, an elderly man pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a billy can containing a quart of milk, of a total value of 3/. Mr. McCarthy added that Crisp stole the billy of milk from a back door in Parnell early yesterday morning. Complaints had been made recently about this class of theft, and yesterday accused was caught in the act. When arrested he denied taking the billy, and did not admit the offence until a search warrant had been obtained and the billy found in his house, where he lived by himself. “Crisp, so the sergeant tells me. is known as a Sunday morning prowler,” said the sub-inspector.
“You are fined £5. or 14 days’ imprisonment,” the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, told Crisp. “And this is your last chance. The next time you will get a month.”
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1928, Page 5
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173“SUNDAY MORNING PROWLER” Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1928, Page 5
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