CONTEMPTIBLE THEFT
DEALER TAKEN TO TASK STOLE HORSE’S FEED Interrupting a horse’s lunch by stealing his nose-bag is a practice not regarded with favour by SubInspector McCarthy. Ernest Richard McDowell, alias Dowell, a dealer, aged 51, pleaded guilty at the Police Court this morning to stealing a bag of horse feed valued at three shillings from Fong On. “It is a mean sort of theft,” remarked Mr. McCarthy. “Fong On left his horse outsido the markets and McDowell, who also has a horse and cart, came up and stole the nose-bag. Had he not been seen by someone upstairs McDowell would have decamped with the horse’s feed, which is a more contemptible theft than stealing from the Chinese himself.” The only thing that could be said in McDowell’s favour was that he was working hard to support his wife who had just come out of hospital. The man had a long list. McDowell was fined £2, being given a week in which to find the mortey. He asked for* two weeks, but the extension was refused, Mr. F. lv. Hunt, S.M., remarking that he was lucky to be given an option with such a bad record.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 526, 1 December 1928, Page 6
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196CONTEMPTIBLE THEFT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 526, 1 December 1928, Page 6
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