SIX MONTHS' GAOL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 4

SIX MONTHS' GAOL

THEFT FROM HOTEL BAR

?, " For stealing £7 in notes from a cash. V- 'register in. the bar of the Ker Hotel ?; on New Year's Eve, Henry Long, aged •<j* 30, a cook, and Ernest Sheridan, aged x\ 24, a seaman, were each, sentenced by Mr. J. H. Luxford, SJ/L, in the Magis- '£ trate's' Coisqt today, to sak. months %,' imprisonment with hard labour. Long pleaded giiilty and Sheridan ? - not guilty. : The police evidence was that at * closing time on Saturday Long was ■*' seen to jump across the bar of the A n hotel, open the cash register, take a j ,' " handful of notes, and hand them, to j another man on the other side of the counter. A few minutes later Long and Sheridan were accosted in the street j l/ by Constable W. E. Leppein, who put, i" them into a taxi for conveyance toi 1. the police station. As he did; so, hej saw Long trying to put a handful of ' / notes into his sock. Both men were*: searched at the police station, where t Sheridan was found to havfe two one* 1 pound notes, and Long nothing, but a ' search of the taxi revealed five one- - , pound notes secreted beneath , the cushion on the side where Long had sat. Earlier that afternoon Long* had asked Constable Leppein for sixpence. * saying that he was then "broke.".-..•>-" 1 Sheridin, in evidence, said,-that he knew Long, who followed him out of the bar at closing time and walked

along the street with him. He saw two pound notes on the floor of the taxi and picked them up. He knew nothing about the theft. ■,-s w^ Long said he had been overcame by.