PERSECUTION STORY
MAGISTRATE INCREDULOUS ONE MONTH FOR THEFT Not believing Alexander Gamble’s story that a' charge had been framed against him to get him into trouble, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., sentenced him at the Police Court this morning to a month’s imprisonment for theft. Gamble, aged 57, pleaded not guilty on a charge of stealing a suit valued at £3 9s 6d from Meltzer Brothers yesterday. Evidence given by one witness was to the effect that lie had seen Gamble take the suit from a shop. Constable Sherson, who had taxed Gamble with the theft, said that the man had replied, “You can search me.” He was under the influence of liquor at the time. Gamble considered that Meltzer had invented the whole story to get him into trouble, but. the magistrate did not believe it.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 714, 13 July 1929, Page 1
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