LABOURER’S ESCAPADE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1938, Page 6

LABOURER’S ESCAPADE

THEFT OF NURSE’S UNIFORM. CONFUSED STORY TOLD. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. George Nathaniel Maly, a labourer and motor-driver aged 35, pleaded guilty today to stealing a nurse’s uniform, valued at 10s Gd, and to being unlawfully on premises in Kent Terrace. The police 'statement was that, on the night of May 27, the uniform was left in a room at the rear of Sir James Elliott’s house. The owner’s sister, on going to collect it, saw what, she took to be a nurse standing near the back of the house. The figure ran past her. It was discovered to be a man and a man’s clothing was found in a coalshed. In the clothing were letters addressed to the accused. He was traced to a house in Miramar. He explained that he visited town that day and became drunk. He was taken by a man to where the man said he could obtain board. When he awoke he found himself without clothing. He donned the nurse’s unform and ran to Miramar, where he obtained other clothes. He was convicted and ordered to 'come up for sentence within twelve months if called upon, a condition being that he refund the sum of 10s 6d.