THEFT FROM BENEFACTOR

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 36, 13 February 1930, Page 10

THEFT FROM BENEFACTOR

Not' satisfied with' being given a free s meal when he was hungry, James Grant, :a labourer, 'thinking . that there was money in.a ladies * 4 handbag which -he •saw nearby, sto^e. the'article while he. was-in"the kiteijen of tlxe Salvation* I,rro^ at Lower Hutt last-July. Giant, who had been drinking, in the Huttj call-1

Ed on a ministei- and asked for fooi mth. the result that he, wis taken to tl home. .On stealing 'the fjag, however^; discovered, it contained ;\no moneyj " t he threw it-over the fence as, he left. Last week * Grant admitted the the: when charged int the Magistrate's Cour U"I have_a job^tp go to," he said toil Magistrate, r*an6j will take, out a pr( bitibn order if- you '11 give me a chance. I '■■ Chief-Detective- Lopdell- - stated tht the bag had. been recovered' undamage< Aceu'sed' was convicted and * ordere

•to come*up for sentence if called upo within twelve months. He was • also o: dered-to Isbke but a prohibition order.;