EX-CONSTABLE’S THEFT
COLLUSION "WITH A CARRIER
AUCKLAND, April 20,
Two former constables and a meat carrier were charged in the Magistrate’s Court to-day with stealing meat valued at Is 6d. Herbert Ernest Jones was fined £5 but the charge against the other exconstable was dismissed.
Robert George Rhodes, the carter, was fined £2.
The evidence showed that Rhodes was carting meat from the abattoir to a shop adjoining a suburban police station. Rhodes arrived about midnight and was told by Jones that there was supper awaiting him at the station. Alter supper, Rhodes is alleged to have told Jones that there was a parcel of meat waiting for him in the shop. Later a police sergeant, hiding in the shop, saw Jones and the other constable enter the. shop, and take some meat into the station.
Rhodes, ill evidence, denied that he told Jones that there was a parcel awaiting him., but admitted leaving the shop door closed but unlocked for Jones,
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1931, Page 2
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162EX-CONSTABLE’S THEFT Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1931, Page 2
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