THEFT OF WATCH
ACCUSED FINED £l. A charge of theft of a watch, valued at £5 ss, the property of Henry Gordon Dagg, was preferred against Abraham Thomas Oliver, 26, a driver, when he appeared before Messrs L. J. Taylor and A. D. Low, J’s.P., in the Masterton Magistrate’s Court yesterday afternoon. Accused, who elected to be dealt with summarily and pleaded guilty, was convicted and fined £1 and ordered to make good certain damage to the watch. Detective-Sergeant W. Kane, who prosecuted fox’ the police said the watch was reported missing about two years ago during harvesting operations on Mr Dagg’s property at Manaia, where the accused was working at the time. Nothing was seen of the watch until yesterday, when Olivei' was found with it in his possession . Detective Sergeant Kane said that the accused had told him that he had found j the watch but had made no effort to return it.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430318.2.34
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1943, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
155THEFT OF WATCH Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1943, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in