THEFT OF A WALKING-STICK
THREE MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT.
The story of an impudent theft was disclosed in the Magistrate s Court vesterday before Mr. S. E. M'Carthy, S.M. Constable G. A. Baskm, on Thursday, while in .plain clothes, went into a confectioner's shop in Adelaide Road, and on leaving the shop inadvertently left his walking-stick, valued at 225. fid. Shortly . afterwards, Herbert J. S. Metford,' who was under the influence of liquor, walked into the shop and got away with the stick. Later on, wMien accosted by a constable, accused said that he had a stick, but did not know where lie got it from. He further stated that lie had sold the walking-stick to a pawnbroker for
2s. Inspector Marsack Raid that tlio aceused was a returned soldier, and a mairied man, and before lie went to the war he had a very shady record. His Worship, addressing the accused, said that the trouble was drink. He had already served several tc-rnis of imprisonment. . Metford was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 8
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171THEFT OF A WALKING-STICK Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 8
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