Samoan Guilty Of Theft
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From Our Own Correspondent
Apia, Nov. 18.
A FTER a lengthy trial before Chief Judge S. Morling, a young “local born” trader, Oscar Graf, of Safata (South Upolu), charged with the theft of £B2/5/- from IPs employers. Burns Philp (S.S.) Co. Ltd., was found guilty.
He was sentenced to six months’ impri sonment. On a second charge of setting fire to B.P.’s copra shed at Sat-aoa, Graf was given one year in gaol. The sentences are cumulative.
Graf pleaded not guPty at the begin ning of the trial, but after the testimony of 30 Samoan witnesses had been taken, he confessed and admitted the charges.
Rev. P. Gonnet. of the Catholic Mission, returned to Fiji by the last Niagara.