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•John Kelly, aged 30, has just served a ■sentence of three months' imprisonment, and to-day in the Magistrate's Court he was sent back to gaol by Mr. E. Page, S M., for a further term of three months. The offence which brought Kelly before the Court to-day was the theft of a wallet containing about £14 and a gold pencil, of a total value of £15. Chief-Detective Lopdell said that when in Wanganui in November last,. Kelly took the wallet and the pencil from a room m. a boarding-house. He then came on to Wellington, where he was arrested for an offence committed here and sent to gaol for three months. It was not known until after he had served that sentence that ho was the man wanted on the theft charge, in Wanganui. The accused, from the dock, said he had a job to go to, and was willing to pay the money back. In sentencing Kelly, the Magistrate remarked he had a long list of convictions for serious offences. .
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 11
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174BACK TO GAOL Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 11
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