CHARGE DISMISSED.
MAGISTRATE’S COMMENT.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 28
Though dismissing tbe charge as trivial, the Magistrate (Mr J. H. Luxford) to-day refused to suppress the names of Cornelius O’Halloran and William Calder Crisp, two members of a travelling cricket team from the Hutt Valley, charged with the theft of a uniform valued at £7 7s on the Rangatira, en route to Lyttelton on New Year’s Eve. It appeared that they went to the wireless room with a friend who wanted to send a message. They had been round the bar and were in a merry mood. While in tbe wireless room they took the operator’s coat from where it was hanging. The coat’s subsequent adventures included a trip to Christchurch, but it was made clear that there was never any intention that it should not be returned to the owner.
The Magistrate was satisfied that there wag no real intention to retain tlie coat permanently, but a cricket, team should play the game when it was travelling just as it was expected to do on the field, lie said.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 11
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181CHARGE DISMISSED. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 11
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