THEFT OF A SAW
lionald Jack Brace, aged 20, and Nathan Georgo Stotliers, aged 22, were charged in the Magistrate's Court at Petono yesterday with the theft of a cross-cut saw, valued at £2 ss. Both pleaded not guilty. Tho evidence of Kobert Walker and Maxwell M'Donald, firewood cutters, showed that they had. missed a saw from their camp at Mauugoraki, and that it had later been found at the defendants' camp.
For tho defendants, Mr. C. E. Barrett said that the charge should never havo been brought. Brace" and Walker had known each other for years, and the defendants had merely borrowed the saw, intending to return it. Although their method of borrowing was rather loose, there was no criminality in their action. Counsel suggested that tho case should be dismissed.
Mr. T. B. M'Neil, S.M., thought that it was a case of plain theft, with no redeeming features. He convicted the defendants, and fined them £3 each, in default fourteen days' imprisonment. They were allowed a month to find the money.
An application for the suppression of their names was refused.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 14
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183THEFT OF A SAW Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 69, 18 September 1930, Page 14
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