POLICE GAZETTE DAMAGED
Man Tears Out Own Record Bv Telegraph—Press Association. Greymouth, May 16. An unusual case was heard in the Magistrate's Court this morning when .James William Kennington, alias George Robert Kennington, was charged with committing mischief by wilfully damaging a volume of the Police Gazette, the property of the Government, to the value of 10/-. Detective-Sergeant Knight said that the Gazette was strictly confidential. It comprised a weekly record of police and criminal work in New Zealand. The gazettes were bound into annual volumes, which could not be replaced and wer e practically indispensable to the police. On the night of May 13 an assault occurred at Greymouth, and a constable took several persons, including accused, to the police station. Accused was left in the watchhouse while others were questioned. He went to the 1932 volume Gazette containing his own record and photograph and tore out and took away the page relating to himself. He subsequently admitted the offence. . Accused was fined £2, in default seven days’ imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 197, 18 May 1936, Page 10
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