SEVEN CHARGES OF THEFT
♦—- REFORMATIVE DETENTION ORDERED (press association telegram.) WELLINGTON, March 16. Thomas William Hill, aged 23, a labourer, was sentenced to two_years reformative detention by Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court on seven charges of breaking and entering and theft. Hill was later, in the Magistrate’s Court, convicted and discharged on two charges of theft from the New Zealand Railways. It was stated.that the thefts were from railway carnages in the Wellington station,, where the accused and others were in the habit of sleeping. Offences of this kind had been prevalent.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22662, 17 March 1939, Page 7
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