CIRCUS “SWEETS” MAN STEALS BIG MONEY
£l5O MISSING GAOL TERM IMPOSED Wirths' Circus Company will leave New Zealand to-day without its “sweets” man. He is in Mount Eden Prison. At the Police Court to-day George Edward Roberts, aged 27, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing £2 9, the property of the manager of Wirth’s Circus, and two charges of failing to account for sums amounting to £9 Bs. Chief-Detective Hammond said that accused had been in charge of the circus sweet stall. He disappeared on Saturday night with £l9, and was arrested yesterday with only fourpence left. His total defalcations were about £l5O. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment on the first charge and one month on each of the other two charges.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 305, 16 March 1928, Page 1
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125CIRCUS “SWEETS” MAN STEALS BIG MONEY Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 305, 16 March 1928, Page 1
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