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AtTOKDAND, Last Night. . Appearing in the Police Oouf t on sUfflinons, WilliaM MaSkell, aged 57, the , manager of a store In the Sar&nghiiape ; road, pieaded guilty ot the theft of seven bage of potatoes valued at £1 15s. the prdperty of Wong 6io YUe, a greengrocer neit ddor. The police said that for some time the Ghinefee had been miskifag pofatoOs and onions from ihe back of the shop. A Watck was kopt aiia MaskeU was caught in the Uct. . Counsel for the defence said ktaskelJ had beeen in his ptesent empl'oyrnent for five years; apart from this iapse he was of ah exemplary oharacter. and could not aceeunt for his lapse4 The potatees went ifite stock add the proceeds went itito the till of his employers who, howevef, knew n&thlng about it. I Maskell's wife had been iil and this had afileoted him greatiy. The Magistrate said it seeihed an cxtraordinary case; it was not a Bttdden impulse, as there were a number of vheftSj Maskell was fined £1 on one charge And cohvicted and discharged on the other. Be was ordered to make restitution.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 86, 28 April 1937, Page 7
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