STOLE WATCH
SIX MONTHS’ GAOL. ; • CHRISTCHURCH, : S'<*pV 26. Already serving a sentence oi twelv 9 months’ imprisonment for 'tlie.lt, ltdward Gillespie, a jeweller/appeared before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning, charged with the theft, on August 19th, of a gold watch and chain, valued?at ' £H> the property of AY iHi am Henry Salmond.. Accused pleaded guilty anc * .wa s sentenced to six months ’imprisonment. Chief-Detective Dunlop sold that on August loth, Salmond took his gold watch and chain to Gillespie, a working jeweller ,asking that the watch should be repaired. He could not get any satisfaction out of accused, so he informed the police. At first Gillespie said that tile watch and chain were at his boarding house,, but later said that he had sold them to a man named Jack Scott. He had got £.lO for the watch and £3 for.the chain. This might or might, nofc lie the case, as Scott had gone to Australia. Gillespie, was, at present serving, a, term of twelve months’ imprisonment/ for a similar offence, continued the chief-detective. He had been sentenced in Dunedin. .n' Accused was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment with hard labour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1933, Page 6
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197STOLE WATCH Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1933, Page 6
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