THEFT FROM LAUNDRY
SEAMAN TAKES PARCEL OF SHIRTS POSTMAN'S GOOD MEMORY Staggering msto a Chinese laundrymans shop onr Saturday evening. Joseph McKee leaned over the counter and selected a parcel of someone else’s washing. A postal official's memory for faces was responsible for his appearance in Court this morning. McKee, a seauian aged 21. pleaded guilty to the theflt of four shirts valued at £2 from Sor|g Lee. Sub-Inspector McCarthy said that McKee was seem coming out of the shop by a post oifice official. By the time the Chinese t*ad rushed out after him he had disappeared, but the postal officer recognised him in the street yesterday and told a policeman. McKee’s excuse was that he had been too drunk to remember where he got the shirts, so had been unable to return them. “It is a contemptible theft,” concluded the» sub-inspector. McKee was rermwied until Thursday for sentence, buil being fixed at £ 50.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 534, 11 December 1928, Page 15
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