TAILOR STEALS BRANDY.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18893, 7 January 1927, Page 7

TAILOR STEALS BRANDY.

♦- ONE MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT. [THE PEEBS Spaclal Service.] WELLINGTON, January 6. Sanml McShane, aged 59, a tailor, was an interested spectator of the doings of several employees of Preston and Company, wine merchants, in Stout street, on , Wednesday afternoon. An order was being got ready for shipment, and the men»were stacking the eases insido the front door of the company's premises preparatory to their being carted off to the wharf. 1 When a favourable opportunity offered, McShane stepped across the street, lifted a ease of brandy, wrapped his overcoat around it, and hurried off with the bundle under his arm. Ho took it 'to_ a timber yard nearby, where in a neglected corner he covered it up with grass and rubbish. Unfortunately for him, he was seen lifting the case, and tho vigilance of an officer of the law, who watched the corner carefully all the afternoon, was rewarded about halfpast sixf at night, when McShane came back with an instrument and began to prise open the lid of the box. In the Magistrate's Court to-day, Mr W. G. Eiddell, S.M., sentenced the accused, who had a lengthy list of previous convictions against him, to one month's imprisonment. The £lO worth of brandy was ordered to be returned to the owners. *