“STEALS FOR DRINK”
LABOURER’S DOWNFALL robbed clergyman According to Chief - Detective Hammond, William Kirk will steal anything to get money for beer. Kirk. a. labourer, aged 54. pleaded -iiilty at the Police Court this niornng to stealing a rug valued at £3 from Herbert Wedge wood Brabant, and a *i,it of pyjamas and a silk shirt valued at £4 from Claude Herbert Grant Cowen. jUr. Hammond said that the rug had l»kcn taken from a motor-car and the clothing from Canon Grant Cowen’s Jioro- • Kirk was at present serving a term of one month’s imprisonment. Kirk was sentenced to a month’s Imprisonment on each charge, the sentences t«; 1
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 506, 8 November 1928, Page 13
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109“STEALS FOR DRINK” Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 506, 8 November 1928, Page 13
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