ENGLISHMAN SENTENCED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) \ AUCKLAND, This Day. j For offences committed while on probation John Shelly Kennard-Davis, aged 25, an Englishman, was given reformative detention by Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Police Court today. He was charged with stealing a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes valued at £11 18s from a boardinghouse and incurring a debt of £7 9s for board and obtaining £3 from a hotel proprietor by means of a valueless cheque. He pleaded guilty to all charges. The police produced a statement in which the accused said he had been working on State houses at Orakei as a carpenter's labourer. He left the job, walked to the city, and booked in at a hotel under the name of "J. P. Wilson, London." That night he went to a party at Remuera, obtaining liquor from the hotel porter by signing for it and also obtaining £3 from the hotel proprietor by giving a cheque. He stole clothing from a I boarding-house where he previously ! resided. The Magistrate sentenced the accused to reformative detention for a period not exceeding twelve months.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1939, Page 15
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188ENGLISHMAN SENTENCED Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1939, Page 15
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