BORROWED OR STOLEN?
WATCHMAKER’S VISIT TO PAWN-SHOP A question to be decided when Finest Edward Cuthbertson Maxey appears before Mr. F. K. Hunt. S.W., next Friday, is whether a watch repairer who pawns watches given him to mend is guilty of theft. Maxey was charged at the Police Court this morning with stealing a gold watch valued at £o belonging' to Isabelle Judge, on August 1. “Steal a watch?” explained Maxey. "I didn’t steal a watch. I got it from Miss er-er to repair it.” Chief-Detective Hammond applied i for a week’s remand, as there were further charges to be brought. Maxey admitted pledging the watch, but said that lie intended to redeem it later in order to repair it. The Chief-Detective: Well, if That | isn’t stealing. I don’t know what is
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 11
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132BORROWED OR STOLEN? Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 785, 4 October 1929, Page 11
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