AFTER DRINKING BOUT
COOK’S EXCUSE FOR THEFT ‘•ln know it was a silly thing to do. but I had had too much to drink.” So Henry Benjamin Ball, a cook, aged 62, excused himself after pleading I guilty at the Police Court this morn- ! ing to stealing two table-cloths, valued | at 15s. ! Ball said that for some unknown j reason he took the table-cloths and i threw them in the park, lie told the 1 owner what he had done. I ’‘Ball made a clean breast of the | affair,” commented Sub-Inspector Mc- ! Carthy. “It is some considerable time | since he was before the court.” j A fine of £1 was imposed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 607, 8 March 1929, Page 1
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111AFTER DRINKING BOUT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 607, 8 March 1929, Page 1
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