“WAS VERY STUNNED”
SEAMAN EXCUSES THEFT GAOL FOR THREE WEEKS i “I must have been very stunned,” explained James Douglas Silby when charged with theft at the Police Court this morning. Silby, a seaman aged 2S, pleaded guilty to stealing an attache case, valued at £2, from William John Service. “The owner of the. bag left it in his
car at the back of the Post Office,” said Sub-Inspector McCarthy. “Post and Telegraph emploj’ees noticed two young men loitering near the car and eventually saw one of them reach in, grab the bag, and rush off toward the railway station followed by his companion. The watching: men rushed after the thief and his comrade and caught Silby, bolding him until the arrival of Mr. Service. The other mail unfortunately got away byspringing on a train that was just pulling out.” Mr. McCarthy mentioned that, through Silby’s determination to plead not guilty, which he had abandoned only an hour or two before coming to court, Mr. Service had been seriously delayed on ah important journey South. Sentence of three t eeks imprisonment was imposed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 588, 14 February 1929, Page 16
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