TORE OUT RECORD

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 10

TORE OUT RECORD

PAGE FROM POLICE GAZETTE

OFFENCE IN WATCH HOUSE

(Bj- Telegraph—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, This Day. 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 10s. 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 were practically indispensable to the police. On the night of May 13 an assault occurred at Greymouth, and a constable took several perso.ns, including the accused, to the police station. The accused was left in the watchhouse whilst 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. The accused was fined £2, in default i seven days' imprisonment.