ABSCONDED FROM BAIL
CARTER CHARGED WITH THEFT HOTEL-KEEPER MUST PAY £IOO Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day. As a result ol Arthur Hobbs dieappearing and failing to answer two charges against him in the Magistrate’s Court, Thomas Weatherburn, licensee of the Dominion Hotel, who ■went bail for him, is required to pay the Crown £ 100. Hobbs was a carter in the employ of a firm of city merchants. He was charged with omitting to account for £6 4s, and with the theft of 500 boxes of butter, valued a £ 2,000. He was remanded. Weatherburn going surety for £250. Hobbs disappeared, but as Weatherburn has assisted the police to ascertain his whereabouts the magistrate, Mr) E. Page, S.M., ordered him to pay over £IOO of the bail money.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 380, 14 June 1928, Page 9
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125ABSCONDED FROM BAIL Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 380, 14 June 1928, Page 9
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