THEFT FROM WHARE
MAORI FOR SENTENCE SMART WORK BY POLICE (Special to the Herald.) RUATORIA, this day. A charge of breaking and entering by day the dwelling-house of Patrick Joseph McHugh and stealing £ll and two packets of tobacco was preferred against a Maori, Hone Moeke, when he appeared before Messrs. I. S. C. Dalgairns and W. H. O. Johnston, J.Ps., in the Police Court in Ruatoria. It was stated by the police that McHugh, a roadman employed by the Waiapu County Council, had left £2l in notes in a pocket in his whare before leaving for work on the morning of August 22. When he returned he found that the whare had been entered and a sum of money and the tobacco .stolen, including two £5 notes. Two days previously McHugh's brother had written down the number of four £5 notes which the complainant had. two of these being the stolen notes. The theft was traced back to the accused when it was found that he had cashed one of the notes in making a purchase from a goods van. Moeke pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court in Wellington for sentence.
The prosecutor was Constable Birch, Ruatoria.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 26 August 1939, Page 8
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201THEFT FROM WHARE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 26 August 1939, Page 8
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