CAUGHT IN POSSESSION
MAN STEALS DOCTOR’S BAG. SENT TO GAOL FOR SIX MONTHS By Telegraph —Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. April 12. Suspicions led Constable G. W. Ally to accost William Anderson in the street yesterday afternoon. Anderson was carrying a bag and refused to say anything about it. He was taken to the police station, and the bag, on examination, was found to contain surgical instruments. Anderton still refused to say anything at
These circumstances were described by Doted ive-Sergeant T. E. Holmes when Anderson, a bootmaker, appeared in the Magistrate's Court this morning. Anderson was charged with stealing a bag containing medical instruments and supplies valued at £l2, the property of Francis Oswald Bennett.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.
Detective-Sergeant Holmes said Dr. Bennett stated 'that the bag had been in his car most of the day and he did not know when it had been taken. If the doctor had had an emergency call the results might have been serious, concluded the detective-sergeant.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1938, Page 8
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