INCREASED HIS LUGGAGE
BOARDER’S THEFT FROM HOUSE COMPLAINT BY WIFE When John William Pye left the boardinghouse where he had been staying in Palmerston North, several articles that he had found in a drawer in his room left with him. He was charged at the Police Court this morning. Pye, alias Percy Yv'ren, a carpenter, aged 30, appeared for sentence on a charge of stealing a torch, a pair of scissors and a handkerchief of a total value of 11s 6d from Frederick Richard Anstiss on August 30. Mr. Dickson appeared for accused and said that he had been in trouble before when he was a youth. He had gone to the war and since then therehad. been, no trouble. He had taken the articles from the boardinghouse, imagining that nobody would miss them.
“As he has been in gaol a week, we shall let him off,” said Mr. F. Iv. Hunt. S,M.. and Pye was convicted and discharged. A complaint that accused was in | default on a maintenance order for the I support <*f his wife was adjourned for ! a week on the application of counsel. It was mentioned that the warrant had been issued at Dargaville in 1923 and that the police had had some ; difficulty in tracing the man. Accused j was given his liberty on the. condition ! i hat h© reported to the police each | day.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 864, 7 January 1930, Page 1
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