WAS IT HIS DOUBLE?

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 49, 20 May 1927, Page 9

WAS IT HIS DOUBLE?

MAN WHO STOLE FROM CAR WADE REMANDED FOR SENTENCE Walter John Wade must have a double, if his protests to the Bench in the Police Court yesterday are to be believed. A Hobson Street radio dealer left a wireless set in the back of his car about mid-day yesterday, covered over with a scarf and a rug. When he came back 20 minutes later the set was still there, but the scarf and rug were as invisible sound waves. Later in the afternoon a man, whom the barman positively identified as Wade, and a companion, came into a hotel in the same locality. Wade (or was it his double?) had the rug and scarf over his arm and succeeded in selling them to another man in the bar. Constable Power, who at the radio dealer’s request “tuned in” on the matter, found Wade and his friend both under the influence of liquor in Hobson Street and brought them back to the hotel. The barman was quite certain that Wade was the man who sold the rug. “All I can say is I never took it,” was Wade’s defence this morning. At Chief Detective Cummings’s request the accused, who is 31. was remanded for sentence until Monday. Meanwhile a search will be made for the missing articles.