STOLE 12 BOTTLES OF BEER

Southland Times, Issue 24868, 7 October 1942, Page 6

STOLE 12 BOTTLES OF BEER

Young Man Convicted

Pleading guilty to the theft from Asher’s Siding railway station of 12 bottles of beer, a young man was convicted in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months. His name was suppressed from publication. Chief Detective K. Thompson, said that the guard on the train carrying the package of beer put the beer off at the siding and the accused took it and consumed it. He was in bad health and on behalf of his parents the chief detective asked their worships (Messrs J. Pickard and F. E. R. Booth) to consider an application for suppression of the accused’s name. In answer to the Bench the accused said he went to pick up some beer he was expecting and took the package by mistake. He had not known it was another man’s until he had opened the package. He intended giving the man another dozen bottles or paying for the beer, but the matter had been placed in the hands of the police. The accused was convicted and ordered to make restitution of the value of the stolen beer (24/-).