In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched
pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of sixpence.
Here, Simon, put these
pilferers out, shove 'em into the road, out with 'em
When we came on shore, the old pilot, who was now our friend, got us a lodging, together with a warehouse for our goods; it was a little hut, with a larger house adjoining to it, built and also palisadoed round with canes, to keep out
pilferers, of which there were not a few in that country: however, the magistrates allowed us a little guard, and we had a soldier with a kind of half-pike, who stood sentinel at our door, to whom we allowed a pint of rice and a piece of money about the value of three-pence per day, so that our goods were kept very safe.
The portly
pilferer is facing a year in the slammer and, worse still, is being disowned by his beloved Fianna Fail.
RISALPUR -- PESCO started crackdown on Wednesday against the power
pilferer and arrested seven persons in this regard.
Saira Afzal Tarar said that electricity
pilferers were not well-wishers of Pakistan at all and directed the GEPCO officers to launch crackdown on electricity
pilferers and she or any other elected representatives would not favor to any electricity
pilferer at all.
He held load shedding is increasing day by day in the country and Sindh is being dubbed as power
pilferer while quantum of power pilferage is more than other three provinces in Punjab.
MULTAN -- The Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) Metre Reader was suspended for facilitating power
pilferer, here on Wednesday.
A
pilferer Ghulam Rasool was fined Rs 62,944, Nadeem Akhtar Rs 51,920, Mohammad Ishtiaq Hussain Rs 66,882, Mohammad Akram Rs 68,902, Mumtaz Hussain Rs 67,824, Mumtaz Mai Rs 60,588, Shamim Akhtar Rs 64,290
The teams also apprehended 33 proclaimed offenders wanted in different cases of dacoity, robbery, theft etc, a power
pilferer for stealing electricity through direct wires, eight for violating Tenant Act and 10 gamblers were arrested with stake money and gambling stuff.
Police on Thursday said a Fesco task force during a drive against power theft had conducted raids at Pathan Kot and Old Bhalwal and apprehended five
pilferers.
He appealed people to avoid such appliances and help Wapda to expose power
pilferers.
pilferer - a thief who steals without using violence