STOLEN SKINS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1928, Page 2

STOLEN SKINS

TAKEN TO CONSIGNOR. MAN ADMITS IMNEIVING. (By Telegraph—Dress Association). DUNEDIN. Oct. 7. Hare skins may look alike to the uninitiated, hut there are apparently some distinctive qualities about them, as William Michael WTiiiiy found to his i-osb when he took seme stole*! have skins to a local warehouse, to w./a-h, as -a matter of lack they had urig-inally belonged. This and subsequent happenings led t» Whitt.v being charged at the Folio 1 Court this morning with having received from some person unknown 11 lb. t! hare skins valued at £4 4s Od. the property of the New Zealand Ship' in* Company, well knowing that they had leu stolen. Whit tv pleaded guilty. C'hief-Detectivc Camer >n said tlml tiro accused was employed on s.s. Dorset yesterday, where a number of balm* oi ssins from skin mer-bants of the eitv, to -be consigned Home, were being sih in-pod into No-. 3 lc-lrl, About 1 Hirsh time it was discovered that one of the hajlcs had I ceu cut open, and it was found to be ]4lb short. The Acowed had taken Utb of these skins, strange to say, to the people who had shipped them. He did not got anv money, but left the skins there, and wav, to cull back. Detectives were summoned, and while the accused denied stealing the sums he admitted that he got them from some person, knowing tlmt they were stolen. He was a married man, 48 years of age. IT,is was a case of pillaged cargo, and often the ships reached their ’destination before the theft was discovered. For accused, Air White asked for an ad purnment to enable- him to go into the matter, the case being adjourned until Wednesdav. An application for suK'oression of the accused’s name was ref used.