UNDERTAKER FINED
PAUPERS’ RINGS TAKEN. COMPENSATION FOR EXPENSES. SYDNEY, October 31. Wedding rings had been taken from the bodies of paupers to compensate him for the expenses of burying them, it was stated in the Sydney Central Police Court, when Benjamin Edward Decker, aged 50, funeral director, of Melbourne, was fined £lO. The defendant pleaded guilty to having had in his custody two gold wedding rings reasonably suspected of having been stolen. Police evidence was that defendant, who is a partnei- in a Melbourne firm, came to Sydney, on April 11, sold six gold wedding, rings to a city jeweller, and gave a false address. He again came to Sydney on October 27 and’ sold two more rings, and on this occasion gave the correct address.
Defendant told the police, the police stated, that his firm held the Government contract in Melbourne for the removal of bodies, and that he had. taken the rings from the bodies of. paupers prior to burial. His firm received no remuneration for the removal of bodies, and the rings were taken as compensation.
Defendant told Mr Hardwick, S.M., that he did not think it wrong to remove the rings, as they were not claimed by anyone’.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1942, Page 4
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202UNDERTAKER FINED Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1942, Page 4
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