Stole to Avoid Return to Ship: Wish Not Granted

Grey River Argus, 13 November 1948, Page 8

Stole to Avoid Return to Ship: Wish Not Granted

WELLINGTON, Nov. 12 A statement that he had committed theft in order that he would be given a term of imprisonment that would last unitil his ship had sailed from New Zealand waters, and so that on his release he could settle down in this country was made in the Magistrate’s Court to-day by a man charged with the theft ot a ring and handkerchief of a total value of £49 12s 6d. -• . no The accused, Louis Levy, aged 28, a seaman said he had no intention of keeping the ring and the handkerchief and that he had waited for.the police to question him on the matter. Senior-Sergeant Lines, who prosecuted. said the accused’s ship would be in New Zealand waters for the next five or six weeks and that the ■iccused was a native of Portuguese East Africa. “This court like to co-operate whenever it can, but it was six weeks you were looking for. wasn’t it?” said the Magistrate, Mr A. A. McLachlan, in imposing sentence of one month’s imprisonment.