STOLE £1390 IN COAT
Workman For Sentence (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, May 2. Charged with the theft of £1390 from a 76-year-old retired farmer James Fenton, aged 54, a workman, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland today and was remanded by Mr W. S. Spence, S.M., to May 9 for sentence. The police prosecutor (Mr F. Anderson) said a Mr Macmillan stayed at the Salvation Army hostel on the night of April 30. He carried £1390 in the inside of his coat pocket. At I a.m. he visited the toilet taking his suit coat over him arm. He returned to the wrong end of the dormitory and in the confusion of the dark lost his coat. Fenton when interviewed by police admitted finding the coat and taking the money. The police found £lOO in the hostel toilet and the rest under a mattress in a house where Fenton lived. Only £2 of the money had been spent. Fenton told the Magistrate he had been losing his memory and thought another spell on the inebriates’ island (Rotoroa) “would do me good.”
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29503, 3 May 1961, Page 4
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