CHARGE OF BURGLARY.
CARTOGNiIST ACQUITTED.
“STUPID SENSE OF HUMOUR.”
The. report that the well-known cartoonist, George Finey, had appeared in a Sydney Police Court along with John Keith Dening, on a charge of burglary, is now followed by the welcome news that the case against Finey has been dismissed. His explanation of how his wife came to be wearing a fur coat, which happened to be part of the £12?7 worth of stock taken from a Pitt Street furrier’s, was accepted by the Magistrate.
Finey macle his wife a present of the coat as “a nice little, surprise,” on the anniversary of their weddiag. Unfortunately he refused to tell the detective who subsequently questioned him about the coat where he had got it. “ Yes, I bought the coat,” he sitid’ “but a stupid sense of honour forbids me telling you from whom I got it.” It was this refusal that caused suspicion to fall on him and Anally led to his arrest and appearance in court. The other man, Dening, reserved his defence and. was committed for trial at the Sydney Quarter Sessions.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5142, 22 June 1927, Page 3
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183CHARGE OF BURGLARY. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5142, 22 June 1927, Page 3
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