BACK TO PRISON
Stated to have been out of prison for only a brief period, Clarence Albert Butterfield, wood machinist, aged 34 was sent back to gaol again in the Magistrate's Court today for possessing house-breaking implements and tor Detective-Sergeant W. McLennan, who prosecuted, said -that the defendant had stolen a bicycle valued at £4 10s from Roy Leonard Dalbeth at Hamilton and had brought it to Wellington. He had taken lodgings in a boardinghouse in the city and during his tenancy a large sum of money was stolen in the house. Butterfield denied all knowledge of this latter affair, but, .on his possessions being searched, four skeleton keys, 18 other, keys, sundry hairpins, arrd a portion of a screwdriver had been found. By a strange coincidence some of the keys would, have opened the receptacle in which the money was placed. The defendant had a long list of previous' convictions.
For possessing house-breaking implements Butterfield was sentenced to six months'' hajrd labour, and for stealing the bicycle to three months' hard labour, to be concurrent.
On. another charge of breaking and entering a dwelling-house -at Tawa Flat and committing theft, Butterfield was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1939, Page 4
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BACK TO PRISON
Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1939, Page 4
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