THEFT OF SOCKS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 10

THEFT OF SOCKS

BEHIND ■ ASSISTANT'S BACK

A plea of guilty was entered by Mr. W. E. Leicester in the Magistrate* Court to-day on behalf of Edward Horace Eugene Dixon, aged 49, who was charged with stealing a pair of socks, valued at 2s lid, the property of Vance-Vivian. v

Senior-Sergeant Ward said that the accused went into the shop to purchase a cap, and while the money was being put iv the till and the cap wrapped up the accused was seen handling a pair of socks. The socks disappeared when the assistant's back was turned, but. when the assistant taxed the accused with the theft he denied it. However, after Mr. Vivian had gone for a constable the accused produced a pair of socks from his pocket. The accused gave several explanations as to how he came to be in possession of the goods.

Mr. Leicester said that the accused was half intoxicated and only knew half what he was doing. He had intended paying for the socks.

In convicting Dixon, Mr. E. Page, S.M., said that authough the accused may have been half drunk it was to be noted that he waited until the assistant's back was turned before he put the socks in his pocket. Dixon was fined £3, in default twenty-one days' imprisonment.