THIEF SENTENCED
CAUGHT BY FOOTBALLER POLICEMAN (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, September 10. The inclusion of three members of the Auckland police in the Auckland travelling Rugby team was responsible for the appearance in Court of a hotel thief, Basil Goodwin Breese, aged 33, a labourer, who came to Wellington from Mastertpn in response to, notification by a registry office that he had got a job on a farm at Taihape. The story told was that the accused came by taxi, and consumed a fair amount of liquor on the road. He visited some hotels, had more liquor,, and later went to the servants’ quarters of the Britannia Hotel and took several sums of money. Then he went to the Empire Hotel } but was there discovered in suspicious circumstances by one of the footballer policemen. The accused, who was already on probation for theft, was convicted and sentenced to one month’s imprisonment on each, of three charges, the sentences to be concurrent.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22504, 12 September 1938, Page 14
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161THIEF SENTENCED Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22504, 12 September 1938, Page 14
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