DRUNKEN MAN’S THEFTS
PRISON TERM IMPOSED Press Association DUNEDIN, To-day. That he was drunk at the time and did not know what lie was doing" was the explanation advanced by Charles Henry Lord in the Dunedin Police Court yesterday when charged with four counts of theft. He pleaded guilty to receiving- sums of money at Hamilton on terms requiring him to account for or pay them to Smith, Wylie and Company, Limited, and fraudulently omitting- *o do so, thereby committing theft. The amounts which it was alleged Lord had failed to account for totalled £25.. Lord was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, on the first charge, and convictions were entered on the other charges.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 612, 14 March 1929, Page 13
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117DRUNKEN MAN’S THEFTS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 612, 14 March 1929, Page 13
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