AN AUCKLAND ARREST
(By Tefagrann— rre.*s Association.) AUCKLAND. Last Night. Prior to the departure of tho steamer Atua for Suva to-day Detectives Hammond and Quartermain arrested a man named Charles Fish, on a charge.of absconding from bail at Wellington. Ho was brought before the Police Court later in the day, and remanded to appear at Welling-' ton on next Tuesday. The original charge upon which lie appeared at Wellington, when he was remanded, and allowed bail,, was that of stealing from Parliament Buildings, Wellington, a number of volumes of consolidated statutes, of a. total value of about £IOO.
Fish was employed as a library messenger for about 11 years, and it is j alleged that when the Statutes were i! consolidated in 1908, and new volumes wero in general demand lie stole ■ them at intervals, and gold them to second-hand book dealers, who in -,urli resold them to solicitors and those requiring them. A number of tho missing volumes have beon recovered, some of them being found in Auckland, Hamilton and other places.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10717, 11 September 1912, Page 5
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173AN AUCKLAND ARREST Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10717, 11 September 1912, Page 5
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