RAILWAY PORTER SENT TO GAOL.
for theft,
A sentence of three months imprisonment was imposed by Mr. S. L. P. Free, S.M., at the Palmerston Magistrate’s Court yesterday, on Walter James Bodle, a railway porter, who pleaded guilty to charges of stealing a motor-car generator and, switchboard valued at £lO and ft motor spot-light, valued at £2. Tin? Magistrate remarked that the case .differed from one of ordinary theft inasmuch as the accused was a Government servant in a position of trust. He had abused that position by stealing property entrusted to his care. It was due to every railway office] 1 to protect such pioperty from loss or depredation. The Magistrate said he had carefully considered the granting of probation but, under the circumstances, could not do so.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3671, 28 July 1927, Page 3
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129RAILWAY PORTER SENT TO GAOL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3671, 28 July 1927, Page 3
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