PETONE POLICE COURT
ALLEGED THEFT 01? A HANDBAG. At tho Petone Police Court yesterday morning,'before Mr. J. W. M'Ewon, J.P.,' Patrick M'Gill appeared on a charge of stealing a handbag valued nt 305., and contents valued at .615, the property: ol Mary Isherwood. . • - ■-*. The facts of tho case as outlined by Sergeant Bird were that a party of motorists from Wellington slopped at the Grand National Hotel for a fow minules shortly before 6 o'clock tho' previous uvciiiiig, and a.? they were re-entering the car tho accused was alleged to have snatdied tho handbag from" the lady's wrist and mado off up the right-of-way at the back of tho hotel. By 7 o'clockConstable Lumber had arrested (lie accused. Tho hag was found in tho man's possession, 'but so for tho money had not been recovered.
Accused was remanded- for eight days, bail being fixed at ono surely for XIOO and himself .£SO. '
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 190, 7 May 1919, Page 2
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152PETONE POLICE COURT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 190, 7 May 1919, Page 2
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