PILFERING FROM SHIPS.
A GANG QF THIEVES AT WORK. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, July 7. At the Magistrate's Court, Michael Crowley was charged with the theft of a number of articles from the steamer City of (Dunkirk, and Bentenicei to twelve months' imprisonment, Nellie Wells 4 on a charge of receiving some of the goods knowing them to hare been dishonestly obtained, was sentenced to one month.
- In passing sentence, Mr. Fraser said that one part of the evidence which struck him with particular force was the statement that there was a gang of thieves among the watersiders, who had some method of dividing the spoils. Mr. Fraser added: "Very many of the waterside thefts \ys have had before this court of late have been in respect of trivial articles, and the instancei were isolated. Thia appears to he something of an entirely different kind, and this is the sort of thing it is the duty of the courts to stop if it is at all possible." /~-
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1919, Page 4
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167PILFERING FROM SHIPS. Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1919, Page 4
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