"ITS A FAIR CATCH"

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 494, 25 October 1928, Page 15

"ITS A FAIR CATCH"

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THIEF who could not SLEEP CHEF GIVEN “SOMETHING TO DO” The explanation that he could ... sleep and came out to buy a newspaper did not satisfy SerBurnett, who accosted John hr-aham in Victoria Street at five eeloch in th * mornin 9Graham, alias. Sinclair, a cook aged . was charged with breaking and ..ring a shop in Victoria Street with “ent to commit a crime. He was further charged with stealing an overroat and a tyre lever, the property 0 f persons unknown. Serceant Burnett, who accosted .ill was suspicious at the time "aVaran even more so when a ■ ml, ot the mans clothing revealed >“ r olid metal tyre lever about ISin. hi length. Graham had then said: "It's a f* ,r catch, sergeant. The game ie “P*” He made a statement to the police m which he described himself as a After being out of work for- , weeks, he had taken the tyre which he had stolen while drunk, and gone down to Victoria street. Shell . a noise had rosultetl I,hen he had wrenched the hasp off .hop door there that he had walked 'v being arrested by the sergeant. The coat bad been stolen from an moccaPicd motor-car. rinham pleaded guilty and was .ommitted to the Supreme Court for recommendations of Chiefnrtective Hammond. Graham was con•irted OP the theft charge and sen'rnred to 14 days’ imprisonment so hit "he would have something to jo while awaiting his turn at the Supreme- .Court.