“TELL THE TRUTH”
MAGISTRATE AND INDIAN
AUCKLAND, Feb. 16,
«Why don’t you tell 'the truth when you are seen by the police," said Mr 1. K. Hunt', S.M., at the Police Court today when he fined an Indian banket, ■Chliana Kavargi, aged 29, £2 or 14 days' imprisonment, on a charge of. stealing 1021 b of copper cable- valued at £5 Bs, belonging to the Auckland Elect]ic Power Board.
The Indian denied 'the charge. Y\ hen first seen by Detective Moore, he made a statement in which he sa:cl he bought the cable from the Onehunga and Talc - puna destructors, blit in another statement he said lie had bought it from two Harbour Board men at the rubbish tip at Parnell.
In evidence, both men denied that ■they had sold cable to accused. They had sold him lead, rags and cast-iron, but not cable.
“I might- have swallowed the first story you told, but you changed it, ami now you tell me a different one,’’ -Mr Hunt told Kavargi Accused was ordered to refund 'to a second-hand dealer the money he was paid when lie sold the copper.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1932, Page 3
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