THIEF FINED £5
MONTH AS ALTERNATIVE
“What does he do?” asked Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police Court, *'hen Ernest Cox, aged 44, stood in dock this morning. “He’s a thief,” was Senior-Sergeant Edwards’s cryptic description of him. Cox was charged with being found drunk in Hobson Street for the sixth trr * 3 in the same number of months, a nd also with stealing a bottle of ginfer stout worth, precisely, fourpence, from an Indian’s shop on the same thoroughfare. This was hls 64th appearance, Mr. Edwards said.
Five pounds or a month,” said the Magistrate, when he had heard this interesting piece of news about Cox.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 1
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109THIEF FINED £5 Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 1
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