UNEMPLOYMENT LEADS TO THEFT
MAN ROBS STORES MONEY AND GOODS STOLEN Press Association. ASHBURTON, To-day. At the Police Court a young man named Leonard Wright, a ’ labourer, pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence on a charge of breaking and entering the Farmers’ Co-op. Association premises at Ashburton on July 19, and stealing goods to the value of £6l 5s 6d, and also, on July 13, breaking and entering the shop of Anna Lowry at Westerfield and stealing goods and money totalling £32 4s. A detective stated that accused said he had been out of work for some time and had no means of buying food, so he decided to steal.
Woman Charged With Theft.—Emily Stevenson, aged 41, who was charged at the Police Court to-day with stealing an overcoat valued at £ 5 15s, was remanded until August 30. Train to Cambridge.—The Railway Department has altered the usual train schedule to suit those wishing to attend the Manawhenua-Waikato representative match to be played in Cambridge to-morrow. The alterations are advertised in this issue.*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 130, 23 August 1927, Page 9
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