THEFT OF FURNITURE
Reformative Detention (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 13. Theft of furniture valued at £42 in Invercargill on October 10 was. admitted by Eric Kissell, aged 32, unmarried, labourer, in the Magistrates’ Court. Police said Kissell rented a furnished house in Invercargill wherein he lived with a married woman living apart from her husband. He sold the furniture for £42, .came to Auckland and adopted an assumed name. When located he had spent the money. He had a bad record and preferred to spend money in hotels rather than pay accounts. Defending counsel said the woman with whom Kissell had lived had been sent to hospital and given blood transfusions. Kissell foolishly sold the furniture and the woman had returned to her people in Christchurch. The magistrate. Mr. Levien, ordered reformative detention not exceeding twelve months.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 43, 14 November 1941, Page 12
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138THEFT OF FURNITURE Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 43, 14 November 1941, Page 12
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