A CLOCK STORY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 392, 2 June 1908, Page 4

A CLOCK STORY.

“He come in flout shop—l in back yard ; he lun upstairs—my cousin callee me, 1 Dlunkeu fella, come upstairs.’ I come out of the yard—someone dlop the clock—it was that man—he take the clock —the constable catchee him—that’s all,” Such was the brief story told Mr Riddell, S.M., by a Chinese named Sun Howe I,ee, of a clock alleged to have been stolen on Wedenesday night by a man named Harold Spencer in the Wellington Court on Thursday (says the Post). “ When did you change your name ?” the witness was asked. “Oh! that just my business name.” “ Weren’t you krOWn as George Howe ? ” asked Mt Wilford. The* witness admitted it was true. The defendant’s tale Was that he was attracted to the house by the screams of a woman, and dashing in picked up a clock thrown in from the top of the stairs and was removing it. His Worship entered a conviction, and fined the accused £i, or in default seven days’ imprisonment.