GOLD IN CHOCOLATES
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Curious Theft Charge At Greymouth ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY
(By Telegraph-
GREYMOUTH, Last Night. A young married man, aged 39, a metallurgist, pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate's Court to the theft of gold valued at £6 14/9, the property of his employers, a gold-mining company. Ac* cused was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon, within twelve months. The evidenee showed that accused placed five femall pieces of cold ln the interior of chocolates for the purpose of forwarding them to his brother at Dunedin, who is also an assayist, allegedly for a check assay, but the parcel containing the chocolates and gold was lost by accused 's wife and, picked up in a Ishop by a little girl who gave the chocolates to an invalid lady for her 21st birthday. The gold was found when th© lady struck a metallic substance in eating one of the sweets whieh ehe then handed to the police. The Magistrate held the opinion that the actions of aceused were not those of an honest man. Suppression of accused 's name was ordered.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 34, 24 February 1937, Page 4
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