“DON’T MAKE IT TOO HOT”
INDIGNANT PRISONER POLICE SUGGESTION RESENTED < 'T\ON'T make it too hot—a joke’s a joke,” said William Adolphus Cunningham, aged 40, In admonition to Chief-Detective Cummings at the Police Court to-day. Cunningham pleaded not guilty to a charge of stealing a rug valued at £l. The woman from whom the rug was stolen soon became irritated by accused’s searching cross-examination and as she left the box she called out: “You stole the rug—that’s all there is about it.” Cunningham said that he had authority to sell the rug, and he got another man to pawn it. “See, I’ve got a lot of ‘pop’ tickets,” he said to the magistrate, “and I thought it would be better if someone else did the deal.” Chief-Detective Cummings: How many days have you worked in the past year, or perhaps it would be easier if we made it hours? “Don’t make it too hot,” replied accused. “A joke’s a joke.” Cunningham was convicted and remanded to appear for sentence tomorrow.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 210, 24 November 1927, Page 20
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