A New Dodge.
» KOBBERiaS OF SEWINGMACHINES. <*BY TELEGUAPH.) (UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, Jaa. 23. A man named Thomas Dobbie was accused to-day at the Police Court of stealing a sewingsmachina, the property of Hugo Wefth'eim. The case for the prosecution was that Dobbje, along with a man named j Forr > hay, who is now serving a sentence of aix months on a similar charge, went to various persons who had machines hired on terms,and, representing that they were sent from Wertheim's shop, took the machines away and disposed of them. Dobbie was committed for trial, bail being allowed m his own surety of £600, and two of £300 each. It is believed that there haß been a regular organisation m the matter of the thett of sewingmachines on a large scale.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 52, 25 January 1883, Page 2
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131A New Dodge. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 52, 25 January 1883, Page 2
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