HOTEL THIEF
CAUGHT BY POLICEMAN FOOTBALLER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The fact of three members of the Auckland police force being included in an Auckland travelling Rugby team, was responsible for the appearance in Court of a hotel thief, Basil Goodwin Breeze, a labourer, aged 33, who came to Wellington from Masterton in response to a notification by a registry office that he had got a job on a farm at Taihape.
The story told was that accused came by taxi and consumed a fair amount of liquor on the road. He visited some hotels, had more liquor and later went to the servants’ quarters of the Britannia Hotel and took several sums of money. He then went to the Empire Hotel, but was here discovered in suspicious circumstances by one of the footballer policemen. Accused, who was already on probation for theft, was convicted and sentenced to a month’s imprisonment on each of three charges, the sentences to .be concurrent.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 September 1938, Page 8
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