UNLUCKY THIEF
TELL-TALE PAWN-TICKET GAOL TERM INCREASED A pawn ticket found in his pocket when he was arrested recently for theft led to a further charge being made against Waawe Tama Manene at the Police Court this morning. Mr. F. Iv. Hunt, S.M.. increased the term Manene is at present serving by two months' imprisonment. Manene. a labourer, aged 29, pleaded guilty to the theft of a gramophone and records valued at £9 15s from a city firm oil April 17. Chief-Detective Hammond said accused had bought the gramophone in December, 1925, on hire-purchase agreement, paying a deposit of £1 15s. Since then the vendors of the machine had heard nothing of the man, and it was only by means of a pawn ticket found in his possession when arrested on another charge that he was found to be the purchaser of the gramophone. “Manene is at present serving a term of one month for theft and he has a long list,’’ added the ChiefDetective. Manene was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment. The magistrate made an order for the return of the gramophone to the owners on the payment of £1 10s to the pawnbroker.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 983, 28 May 1930, Page 12
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