ROBBERY IN WELLINGTON
TWO MEN SENT TO GAOL FOR SIX MONTHS.
MONEY TAKEN FROM HOTEL.
CASH REGISTER
(By ’ielegraph—Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, This Day
■When two men appeared in the Magistrate's Court today, it was stated by the police that one of the two jumped across the bar of the Pier Hotel at closing time on New Year's Eve, opened a cash register, took out a handful of notes and handed them to a .man on the other side of the counter. The men —Henry Long, a cook aged 30, and Ernest Sheridan, a seaman, aged 24 —were both sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. They were arrested in the street and put in a taxi. When they were searched at the Police Station, Sheridan was found to have two pound notes. Long had nothing, but a search of the taxi revealed five pound notes under a cushion, where Long had sat.
Earlier in the day Long had asked Constable Leppein for sixpence, saying he was broke.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 4
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168ROBBERY IN WELLINGTON Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1939, Page 4
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