WIFE IMPEACHED
“A FRAME UP,” DECLARES HUSBAND THEFT CHARGE DISMISSED Suggesting that it was a frameup by bis wife who wanted to send him back to gaol, Maurice Joseph Corkery was vehement in his assertions of innocence when charged with theft at the Police Court this morning. fpHE case was dismissed, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., remarking that it was impossible for him to record a conviction. Corkery, aged 27, was charged with stealing linen, clothing and kitchen utensils valued at £1 17s from Royal Margaret Nelson on June 15. Mr. F. D. McLiver entered a plea of not guilty. According to complainant, Mrs. Nelson, Corkery lived near her and she had known him for some time. On Saturday evening she missed the articles accused was charged with stealing.
How he had discovered the missing pots in Corkery’s kitchen and the linen upstairs in a drawer was told by Detective Kelly, who visited accused’s home on Sunday. Witness said that Corkery had denied having stolen goods in the house and invited him to search the place. Constable Bowman, who had accompanied the previous witness, said that Corkery’s explanation when confronted with the stolen goods was that it was all a frame-up by his wife. Put in the box by counsel, Corkery asserted that he had been in bed by 6.45 on Saturday evening. He had arrived home from a football match about 6.5 and gone to bed suffering from the effects of over-indulgence in liquor. “My wife answered the door on Sunday when the detectives came,” said accused. “She led them straight upstairs to the drawer where they found the linen.” Accused said that his wife had been enjoying herself before he came out of gaol last April, and was doing her best to get him put away again.
The Chief-Detective: I am not surprised. Mr. Hammond suggested that Corkery spent his money on beer but Corkery was convinced that he could get drunk on 2s 6d. After dismissing the case the magistrate made an order that the stolen property should be returned to the owners. ______
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 692, 18 June 1929, Page 1
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346WIFE IMPEACHED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 692, 18 June 1929, Page 1
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