YOUTH FINED £7
BICYCLE THIEF CAUGHT “WANTED A SUIT” Kenneth Ogilvie is a plumber’s apprentice and earns 30s a week, of which he pays £ 1 away for board. For the next 14 weeks the remaining ten shillings of his wages will go towards the payment of the weekly instalments of a £7 fine which he incurred in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Last night a certain lad rode his bicycle to the tepid baths. When he came out after his swim the machine was no longer there. About the same time as the lad was searching for it, two policemen noticed ognvie with the bicycle in a pawnsnop on Karangahape Jctoad. Willie they were examining uie machine, Ogilvie's nerve apparently forsook him and lie fled. Constable Carroll proved the. better sprinter and Ogilvie soon found himself in custody. “There has been a good deal of bi-cycle-stealing lately,” Chief-Detective Cummings commented; “these offences are hard to detect. He said he wanted the money to get a suit of clothes.” Ogilvie’s suit will not be ordered for some months yet, a fact that should impress on him the folly of his crime.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 4, 26 March 1927, Page 1
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190YOUTH FINED £7 Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 4, 26 March 1927, Page 1
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