POCKET FULL OF BOOTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 478, 6 October 1928, Page 1

POCKET FULL OF BOOTY

- LABOURER’S THEFT When Phillip Stephen Vercoe , *• searched at the Police Station **•* ®vening he was found to have notebook*, a cake of soap a china mug and a box of plasticine in his Pockets. pjF* l ** morning he was charged at the Court with stealing a pair of Syy rs * valued at 6s Id, from a Newat l s^oe store, and a mug valued 8 *<l from a fancy goods shop. \ l ? r \ ercoe * a labourer, aged 38, Mr. •auan Moody entered a plea of guilty. L-onstable Tierney said that he had called to the shoe store, where ♦h man^er accused Vercoe of stealing slippers. An assistant said that •a© saw him slip them under his coat. ;. ercoe made a statement to me,” ontinued the constable. “He said that aa<i been drinking with a man he r* a n °t know and had gone with him to buy a pair of boots. They had been accused of stealing the slippers, and tae other man had fled, leaving accused 5? race the music. Later, however, orcoe contradicted his previous statement, admitting that he had taken the suppers and that the “unknown” man his brother-in-law. He was about na ir d.nmk when I arrested him.” Senior-Sergeant Cummings: I know that brother-in-law. He is well known police, and that is putting it mildly. On the recommendtaion of Mr. Cummings, Vercoe was convicted and remanded at liberty until Thursday, when ®e will appear for sentence.