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THE BUSY BEE

Does Sbme Stinging And Is Stung (Prom "N.Z. Trutti's" Christohurch Rep.) He is only twenty -six, but In the few short years of his life he has acquired a list of crimes that raise--' him to the status of go-getter when it comes to living down m Easy Street. DUT the career of Cyril Louis Walter Withell has been curtailed for the next two and a-half years, for ■during that period foe will do a little honest toil m gaol. There Is nothing like a change. Versatility was his long suit. He had no fixed, form of theft or false pretenoe, and, like the bee, would flit from flower to flower when after the sweets of life. Withell had a thirst, too, but he had no difficulty m quenching this without any expenditure on his part: .That Is surely an asset m life! He called on the Union Brewery Company m Chrlstchurch looking the part of a really busy bee, and "stung" the firm for a quantity of liquor on the strength of his assurance that he was the treasurer of the Woolston Fire Brigade. He played the same trick later, on Wards' Brewery Company, but this time he gave himself the dignified title of "President of the Redcllffs, Power Boat Club." He got away with the liquor once 'more. But, somehow, his thirst still . persisted, arid when he called on the St. Albans' Brewery for a further supply of grog, he held himself out to be. the "president of the New Brighton Surf Club." In between drinks, he helped himself to two motor-cycles, imposed on ft woman with a view to getting benefit from her, forged an order to Ballin Bros, for delivery of a case of whisky and obtained other goods by false pretences. . , ; He finished up m a, bach at Stewart's Gully which he entered arid, occupied for some time, m company with the beer kegs he had secured on the cheap. When Withell appeared before Magistrate Mosley it was said that he had been given every chance m- the past. He had been m trouble at various times since 1914 but 4 had .made no attempt to straighten up. On two indictable charges he was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, and on the other charges he was sentenced to six months m all to be followed by reformative treatment for two .years. So exits Withell from the stage for some considerable time. ; '.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTR19280712.2.21

Bibliographic details
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NZ Truth, Issue 1180, 12 July 1928, Page 5

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Tapeke kupu
411

THE BUSY BEE NZ Truth, Issue 1180, 12 July 1928, Page 5

THE BUSY BEE NZ Truth, Issue 1180, 12 July 1928, Page 5

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