THEFTS AT NEWMARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 11

THEFTS AT NEWMARKET.

RAILWAY MAN'S fEAPSE. ■■'■■ KEiIANDED' FOR : SEI?i>EIrCE ..•■-.. :■■■■,'■; \.. : : ";f;§:^' Although previously.. lie.,.]i;i.s ;l)oj;ne a good' record) 1 . PJiilip': Steplieii'Vereoai (38), . a railway employee, of Oheliunga, got involved withjm undesirable associate yesterday afternoon, •and,'iin'der.-.tliß influence of drink,' stole a.pair'.:of slippers valued at 0/11, the property: i:b'f the K.K.- Footwear Company, "and" also a -mug-valued at .l/3;>the'-i property of Colin Angel. .-.The.offences'-were conimitted at Newmarket. Vercoe was discovered with the slippers under his coat by an assistant in the K.K.' footwear" establishment; and, when; the police . were, called.'ithe mug, together With .other; small particles, was found in his pockets. In a statement accused said-he-had picked up another . man in a hotel, and with him had gone along to the boot emporium; chase a pair of boots." 'When" the trouble arose about the missing slippers the other man disappearc.d... i)Vereoe denied that lie , had'r'atttfinin'ed to take the slippers.Senior Sergeant Cumminjjs said that the other mau was accuseds UroSter-in-jir. F. K. Hunt. S.M.:, What _sort of a man is-this br6ther-ih-law»?~ ; '£'V. Senior Sergeant Cummings (significantly) : . I. .could, .tell y ! ou..,quite.jj& lot about him. Mr. Hunt: This man seems to have a jrood record, with-14. years', service. Jlr. Allan Moody,', who,, appealed for • accused, said that he'rei .they.lia.il who had never been in-trouble.ljqfore, who had evidently „ been "under il;e influence of liquor"wlienTthe.offences."were committed.. .. , .r.-.V-;■;-.■ j~ o>>0>> Vercoe ' was convicted,,lind renianded for sentence till .Thursday 'next'."*-.Bail was allowed'on. his owh.'irebogmsaiice. " ■' '•'-'■■ 'rSti