POULTRY THIEVES CAUGHT
PLUCKING THE EVIDENCE. It was with great surprise that an Aramoho resident found he was four fowls and one turkey short when it came to feeding time on Sunday morning (says the Chronicle). He couldjiot think of any of his friends who might have been playing a practical joke upon him, so he put the matter in the hands of the_ police. Later in the morning two young men, Clarence William Edlin and Robert Atkinson, the former a recent visitor from Auckland, were spending a fine time in a shed plucking and cleaning some"fowls in anticipation of a first-class dinner. But they had reckoned without one thing; they had not anticipated for one minute that Constable J. Willetts would track them down, and got a surprise when he walked in and arrested them.
Both pleaded guilty when charged before Mr J.f S. Barton, S.M. at the Magistrate’s Court on Monday, with the theft of the fowls and turkey. The men were also charged with stealing cauliflowers, cabbages, .carrots, parsnips and potatoes to the value of 10/, the property of Sun Yau, a Chinese market gardener. Both men were remanded for sentence. Bail was not applied for.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3547, 7 October 1926, Page 3
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199POULTRY THIEVES CAUGHT Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3547, 7 October 1926, Page 3
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