DESPICABLE THEFT
STOLE CLOTHES FROM MAN WHO BEFRIENDED HIM Charged with the theft at Normanby of a suit of clothes and an overcoat, the property of Johnnie Ngatai, Robert Bradford King, a native labourer of Te HorO', appeared' before Messrs. J. C. Moir and M. De L. Wright, J.P.'s, at a special sitting of the Levin Court. Accused who pleaded guilty, was fined £10.* It was a particularly mean theft in that accused had stolen from a man who had befriended him, said Sergeant W. Grainger. On July 2, King had gone to stay at Ngatai's house at Okaiawa, Normanby. The latter had gone to work in the morning, King accompanying him as far as Normanby, but returning to- the unoccupied house from which he removed a suit of clothes and an overcoat. He had then gone on to Raetihi .Where he left the suit in a Maori's house at which he stayed. The suit had since been recovered. Accused was wearing the coat when arrested on warrant at Levin by Constable R.. Gillespie. Imposing the fine, the bench ordered the leturn of the coat to its owner.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 October 1947, Page 4
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