THEFTS FROM SCHOOL.
GRAMOPHONE AND RECORDS YOUTH WHO WENT WITH CIRCUS. SENT TO BORSTAL. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent-.) HAMILTON, this day. Herbert Lloyd Denton, aged 18 years, was to-day charged with .the theft of a gramophone and seven records,"valued at £9, at Mangateparu, on January 6, the property of the Education .Department; also with the theft of a camera from a bus at Te Aroha on or ahouf January 18. The case was heard Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M, ' N The police evidence showed that the accused broke into the school at Mangateparu and stole the gramophone, and that on a later occasion he visited the school and took the records. Accused, who was weak mentally, was at present on probation for theft at New Plymouth. He had also been before the court at Hamilton for theft and on'that occasion was fined £10. He had run away from home with a circus when living at Morrinsville. The magistrate imposed a sentence not exceeding two years in the Borstal Institution. On a further charge of forging the signature of S. J. Phillips to a cheque for flO at Te Aroha, accused was remanded to appear at Morrinsville on Tuesday.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 18
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