STOLE PENNIES
(Press Assn.-
MAN WHO BROKE OPEN BOXES IN TELEPHONE BOOTHS
— By Telegraph — Copyright).
Wellington, Wednesday Greatly enlarged photographs of a screw-driver point and of marks on damaged telephone slot machine were important links in evidence upon which a man was convicted at the police court to-day of breaking open street telephones and stealing the contents. The accused was George Henry Trillo, a seaman, and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on two charges of the theft of pennies, the sentence to be cumulatiye He was convicted on a third charge of theft and on a. charge of yagrancy and ordered to come up for sentence within two years if called upon. The Magistrate, Mr. E. Page, S.M., remarked that the photographs showed unmistakably that the screw-driyer found on the accused had been used to break open the boxes.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 714, 14 December 1933, Page 5
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141STOLE PENNIES Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 714, 14 December 1933, Page 5
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