DETERMINED EFFORT
(Press. Assn.
former tramway employee's attack on board's strongroom "seven hungry children"
— By Telegraph — Copyright).
CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Admitting the charge that he had attempted to steal £379, the property of the Christchurch Tramway Board, on January 17, by drilling through the reinforced concrete roof of a storeroom, Robert James Foote, aged 42, labourer, was to-day committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. In a statement to the police Foote said he was a widower with seven children, and had not been able to get sufficient food for them. This induced him to commit the crime. The police, in giving evidence, said that Foote was found on the ceiling of the tram depot, with an outfit of tools. A tramway employee heard knocking, and on investigating found Foote, who was captured after a chase. He had formerly worked for the board. Concrete in the roof had been broken away for a foot long and six inches deep. There was £379 in the strongroom. The police exhibits included an imposing array of tools, from an iron standard to a cold chisel.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 138, 3 February 1932, Page 3
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