THEFT OF MONEY
Pleading guilty to the theft of £1, Keith Edward Walls, a grocer's assistant, aged 17, appeared before Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Detective-Sergeant W. R. Murray said that the complainant and the defendant were employees of the same company. The defendant took the money from the complainant's handbag, which had been left in the ladies' dressing-room. The defendant confessed the matter to a detective, and returned the money.
The defendant was admitted to probation for two years, a condition being that he should not visit billiarc. saloons during that period.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 20
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98THEFT OF MONEY Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 20
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