POVERTY PLEA FAILS
WATERSIDER WHO STOLE (Special to THE SUXJ NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday. The plea of poverty advanced by a waterside worker, R. J. Hughes, who was charged with stealing a quantity of crockery from the steamer Hertford, in the Police Cour: to-day. failed to convince the magistrate, Mr. R. W. Tate. Evidence showed accused had earned an average of £6 a week for the last 37 weeks. The magistrate held that the offence was inexcusable. He will announce his sentence to-morrow.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 524, 29 November 1928, Page 13
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