SIX MONTHS’ GAOL
BAG-STEALER SENTENCED “PROFESSIONAL SNEAK THIEF” It is not always advisable to put a bag down on the footpath while waiting for a bus or tram. A woman passenger did this on the evening of April 23 and the next thing she knew it had disappeared. No, it had not vanished into the air. Further up town a young man might have been seen carrying it into a billiard saloon. Later in the day the proprietor also missed his bag. Charged with stealing both the missing brief bags and their contents, Joseph Roy O’Shea, aged SI, whom ChiefDetective Cummings described as “a professional sneak-thief,” appeared before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M. this morning. The Chief Detective also mentioned the fact that O’Shea had just “come out” after serving a twelve months’ sentence for assault and robbery, and handed in his list. “Seventeen previous convictions’’ said the magistrate.—“ Three months on each charge—cumulative.” City workers’ brief bags will be saf-. for the next six months, at any rate so far as Joseph Roy O’Shea is concerned.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 34, 3 May 1927, Page 7
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177SIX MONTHS’ GAOL Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 34, 3 May 1927, Page 7
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