THEFT ADMITTED.
YOUNG MAN IMPRISONED. FOR YEAR-OLD CRIME. (By Telegraph:—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. Arrested at Palmerston North on a charge of vagrancy, Raymond Raiph Roberts, aged 22, was questioned about a theft committed at Hastings nearly a year ago. This morning, before Mr. E. Page, S.M., he pleaded guilty to stealing articles valued at £11 9/3, the property of Jens Peterson. He was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
It was stated that in April last year Roberts was in Hastings. He was destitute, and was sent to a boardinghouse by the Welfare Society He shared a room with. Peterson, and, after the latter went to work one day, he stole various artic'es. He was arrested at Palmerston North on February 19 for vagrancy, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for posing as a refugee from the earthquake area.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 53, 4 March 1931, Page 8
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