THEFT FROM RAILWAYS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 14, 12 October 1943, Page 3

THEFT FROM RAILWAYS

Month’s Jail For Platelayer

Kemarking that there was little difference between thefts from the railways and the wharves, Mr. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, sentenced Leonard alter Corrigan, labourer, aged 46, to one months imprisonment for the theft of goods valued at £l7/4/- from a railway truck at Paekakariki on Friday last.. The goods consisted of 951 b. of tea, six bottles of vinegar, and three bottles of sauce.. Senior-Sergeant G. J. Paine said accused had been a member of a plate-laying gang at Paekakariki, and had taken the goods from a railway truck on Friday night. He was under the impression that the bottles contained beer, and hud been considerably disappointed, when he gave a party some time later, to find that they only contained vinegar. Most of the stolen property had been recovered. Mr. G. I. Joseph who appeared for accused, who pleaded guilty, said it ,was likely that more than one man had been concerned in the thefts, and accused- was bearing the brunt. Tie was not of a criminal type, mid had lost his job. The only loss bad been a bottle of vinegr. An order was made for the restoration of the stolen goods to the Ilailways Department.