ALL IS NOT GOLD
SAILOR STEALS TEETH PAWNBROKER’S BAD DEAL The glitter 'of gold apparently attracts Cecil Cripps, who stole a set of false teeth from a woman’s dressing-table on November 29. At the Police Court this morning Cripps, a seaman from H.M.S. Laburnum, pleaded guilty to stealing a set of false teeth valued at £2O. According to Chief-Detective Hammond, Cripps had first seen the teeth in the scullery, remarking on the amount of gold in them. He stole them, and sold them to a pawnbroker, who broke them up to get the gold. “When the pawnbroker investigated, he found that the teeth were only thinly plated,” said the Chief-Detective. The damage done to the dental plate was given at £4 10s, and Mr. Ham mond remarked that Cripps was at present serving a sentence of 21 days imposed by his commanding officer for another offence. He was to be sent back to England at the first opportunity. Cripps was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment, provision being made for the suspension of the sentence if the man could be shipped home to England ; before its expiration.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 1
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186ALL IS NOT GOLD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 1
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