THEFT OF SHIRT
MAORI CHARGED Arising from a recent case involving the conversion of a truck at Matata, Eddie Brown, a Maori, appeared in the Whakatane Court last Thursday, charged with the theft of a shirt valued at £l. Messrs C. S. Armstrong and L. H. Brown, J.P.s., were on the Bench. Accused pleaded guilty. 1 Sergeant Farrell stated that accused had been involved in the conversion of a truck from Matata some time previously. On that occasion he had been forced to break the window of the cab in order to get the door open when the vehicle had crashed into a hedge at the end of a blind road. He had, in doing so, cut his hand badly, and had crawled into the back of the truck to find something with which to bind it up. He had used the shirt in question. Some time later, whilst making his escape on foot, he noticed that the bleeding had. stopped, and untying the shirt, had thrown it away. Accused had accordingly, been charged with the theft of the article.
Accused was convieted and ordered to pay the cost of the shirt, £l.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 12, 16 August 1946, Page 5
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193THEFT OF SHIRT Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 12, 16 August 1946, Page 5
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