HAMILTON SENSATION
DORN CONVICTED OF THEFT
REMANDED FOB. SENTENCE,
(BI TLLEORAPH. —PKESS ASSOCIATION.)
HAMILTON, This Day.
When Roy Charles Doru, who is awaiting trial for the alleged attempted murder of Muriel Tetzlaff, admitted the theft of a dozen knives, suitcase, and a ring from Fow and Co. at the Police Court this morning, counsel asked that Dorn be given a short term of hard labour, so that he would have some kind of company, which would be preferable to the mental strain of solitary confinement while awaiting trial on the more serious charge. The Magistrate (Mr. Wilson) said he could not consider wK.t accused wanted, but what was best in the interests of the accused and the community. Accused had been convicted of theft two years ago. He was not a novice. He had to treat him as a man charged with a very serious crime. He thought the proper course was to postpone sentence till the attempted murder charge was disposed of.
Accused'was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence on 3rd March. During the hearing of this case Detective Culloty produced a plug of gelignite and a fuse which the detective said were found in accused's possession when he was urrested.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 6
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204HAMILTON SENSATION Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 6
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