ROBBED OLD MAN
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Man Sent to Prison
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AUCKLAND, This Day. For robbipg an pld-age peitsiouer^ wko wa? lying iU in bed, William Jokn Dowling was sentenced to two montks' imprisonuient in tke Police Court today." Dowling, a labourer, aged 40, pleaded guilty to a- charge of stealing £5 10/belonging to Edward Ernest Fairburn, a single man, aged 78, wko lived alone. The police said' that Fairburn wus connectod with the Ohristian Spiritualists Ohurch. Dowling called at his home, saying he had been isent by the presidont and vice-president of the chureh tq borrow £1 to pay his faro to a job in tke counlry, Fairburn gave kim £1 from kis wallet. Bater Dpwling returned and asked for •anothcr £1, but Fairburn refused. r After kis dopartuto tke old man became suspicious and discovered tkat £.3 1Q/- in »otes kad vanisbqd from bis wallet, Wken arrested Dowling said that another man involved had gonc fifty-fifty witk hiui. Iij reply to the Mqgistrate, Dowling said ke could not tell tke Court wko tke man was. "I cannot assume such blitkering ignorance on your part," said Mr McKean, in passing sentence.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 28, 27 October 1937, Page 5
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