LEAVING TOMORROW

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 818, 12 November 1929, Page 12

LEAVING TOMORROW

THIEF GIVEN CHANCE TO JOIN SHIP BOOTS FROM SHOP DOOR “We won’t shed any tears over him if he goes.” commented SubInspector McCarthy when Charles King, who was charged at the Police Court this morning with theft and assault, said that he could leave Auckland on the Canadian Transporter tomorrow. King, a fireman, aged 40. was charged with assaulting John Furneyhongh. stealing a pair of boots valued at 30s from a city store, and committing mischief by wilfully damaging a pair of trousers belonging to William Fletcher to the extent of £2 10s. “I can’t remember anything about, it. so I. suppose I had better plead guilty," lie said in answer to the charges. The sub-inspector said that accused, under the influence of liquor but not drunk, had gone into a Ivarangahape Road store. He had been seen by a passer-by taking a pair of boots from a peg. A girl shop assistant crossed the road to where King was talking to a man named Brett, and asked for the boots. She was given one, and thinking that there was only one stolen, she went back to the shop. She then learned that two had been taken, and Furneyhough had followed King up the street, only to be hit and knocked down by King. King had thrown away the second boot, and the caretaker of the Baptist Tabernacle had joined in the fray, getting his trousers torn. Accused said that he could leave on the Canadian Transporter, sailing tomorrow, and was ordered to come up for sentence on Friday. If you are away on the boat, well and good; but if you are still here, you will go up above,” commented Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.