“WENT FOR HIS LIFE”
CHINESE GAVE CHASE £5 OR MONTH FOR THEFT Wong Foo, who runs a vegetable garden at Point Chevalier, was startled out of his celestial calm the other day when he saw a horse and cart drive up to his fence, and a man calmly “lift” a pile of bags from among his cabbages, place them on the cart, and drive away. Wong was quick to act. In less time than it takes to tell he was in a car, and in hot pursuit of the thief, who, as soon as he saw the irate owner of the bags, abandoned his booty, likewise his horse and cart, and “went for his life.”
In the Police Court this morning, William Maurice Crimmins, a hawker, aged 30, was charged with stealing the bags, which Wong Foo valued at 10s. “He’s an undesirable man to be going around people’s houses with a horse and cart,” said Senior Detective Hammond significantly, and mentioned Crimmins’s many convictions for theft. He was at present serving a short sentence on a warrant of commitment. “Fined £5, or a month,” said Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. “Now he can please himself.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 31, 29 April 1927, Page 1
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