TWO MONTHS' GAOL
ATTESTED THEFT Pleading not. guilty to the attempted theft of an overcoat valued at £4, the property of Joseph Martin Dunn, and to resisting arrest, William Patrick Henry Gardiner, a cook, aged 48. appeared before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today. Constable F. L. Diggle said that he saw the accused with another man trying the doors of cars in Dixon Street. The accused took aif overcoat from one of the cars parked in Manners Street. Subsequently, both men resisted arrest, and one got away. The accused's explanation was that one of the cars belpnged to a friend. The Magistrate: ft takes quite a long time to read your list of previous convictions, most of which are for theft. Stealing from a stationary car is a very serious offence. The accused was sentenced to two months' imprisonment on the attempted theft charge, and was convicted and discharged on the other.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1937, Page 4
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