ELECTRIC IRON THIEF

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 32, 2 November 1920, Page 5

ELECTRIC IRON THIEF

SENT TO PRISON FOR A TERM. I "The method adopted by thlg man was I ingenious," remarked Chief Detective Ward,- when referring to Miclmol M'Grath, who was charged before Mr. V. K. Hunt, S.M, in the Magistrate's Court yesterday with thv theft of three elecric irons from, different homes. The accused) who is an electrician, went to a home in Vivian Street and represented himself fo tie a mombor | the staff of the city.eloetric lighting department. He stated tlhat something had gone wrong in tho hmi6o, and it was thought that the fault was. with the electric iron and hot points. He asked tha hcusewif® at. this nouse and at qach of two other houses whoro he told the same tale, to show him their electrio irons. Re produoc(J a scrowdrivor, unscrewed | the hot-poin<f, mado boliove that tho 9 fault was in connection with tho irons, a and said ho would havo to take them 1 away to be examined, and would Tetum 8 them later. Ho sold ono of the Iron* to 8 a second-hand dealer. The chiof detsn- | tiive said that, tho man had fl long record. I Tho accused ploaded guilty to tho. threo jj charges and asked that a lino be Im- g .posoa. 1 "A lino with thle record 1" remjvrtwii the Magistrate, flourishing the ulieflt of convictions. M'Grath. was sentenced to, threo monthd" imprisonment on the first ctmrge and to eix month*, on tlho seoond, the terms to be cumulative, and he was also sentefioed to two years' reformative treatment. On the third charge ho was convicted and discharged