SAILORS ADMIT THEFT
HOTEL-KEEPER CONCERNED Press Association. INVERCARGILL. Sunday. The proprietor of the Golden Age Hotel. Bluff. William Nathan Hogg, was charged in the Bluff Police Court yesterday with receiving four drums of varnish and two drums of enamel the property of the Commonwealth and Dominion Shipping Line, from the steamer Port Sydney. knowing the same to have been dishonestly obtained. He was convicted and fined £3. in default, one month’s imprisonment. Accused applied for the right to appeal. but later withdrew the application. It is understood fresh evidence has been procured for the defence, and that application is to be made for a rehearing. Two of the crew of the Port Sydney, Alfred Thomas Warren and Albert Edward Redwood, were charged with stealing the varnish and enamel. They pleaded guilty and each was fined £3. in defa.ult one month’s imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 389, 25 June 1928, Page 16
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141SAILORS ADMIT THEFT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 389, 25 June 1928, Page 16
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