MAN WITH LORRY
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"Lbst His Way" Outside Prison POLICE SUSPECT MOTIVE
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CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. "We have every reason to believe that the. sheaves were not the object of his visit or the reason for the trucK bein'g there," said Detective-Sergeant Holmes in the Magistrate's Court today when • Henry Herbert Pearce pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a number of oat sheaves valued at 2/6, the property of the Controller-General of Prisons. Pearce was fined £5, in default 30 days ' . imprisonment, by Mr E. Levvey, S.M. ' Holmes said that the farm manager at Paparua Prison saw the truck outside the prison grounds, and his suspicions were aroused. The manager and a warder accosted Pearce, who said he had got lost in the dark as he was not- familiar with the neighbourhood. He admitted that he stole a number of sheaves. ".It is . strauge that he got lost, as he is well known at the prison," concluded the detective-sergeant. Aslced if he had anything to say, Pearce replied:."If it had been anyone else, nothing would have been said." ■ In imposing the sentenee the Magistiate said that Pearce apparently knew . the inside. of the neighbourhood well.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 54, 26 November 1937, Page 16
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