BETRAYED BY TICKING
man steals clock from car.
MASTERTON, May 22. While G. H. Couehman was, together with some other men, inspecting a car which had gone over the bank at Makurj, be surrendered to a sudden temptation and took a clock which was in the damaged vehicle. The clock was missed, according to the Aery told by the police in the Pahiatua Magistrate’s Court, where Couehman was charged with theft, and all commenced to hunt for it. Ore man hearci the clock ticking in Couch man’s pocket, and after a while the latter was seen to walk up. on to the road. Couehman was later interviewed at Marton by the police, but denied taking the clock, Subsequently he went to the police and made a clean breast of the matter, admitting that while . the search for the clock had been going on about the car he had “got the wind u]i” and thrown it away. The Magistrate. Mr J. Miller, took into consideration that the theft had been committed on the spur of the moment, and imposed a fine of £2. Couehman was also ordered to pay 12s 6d for damage done to the clock. Default was fixed at s even days’ imprisonment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1931, Page 5
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204BETRAYED BY TICKING Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1931, Page 5
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