HOUSEBREAKING TOOLS
GAOL SENTENCE [Per United Frees Association.] WELLINGTON, December 21. Suspicious movements on the part of Ronald Hicks late on Saturday night led to detectives questioning him, and as the result Hicks was sentenced to three months in gaol by Mr Woodward, S.M., to-diy, charged with being a rogue and vagabond, in that he was found unlawfully in possession of a housebreaking instrument. Detectives found him with jemmy and torch, and he admitted his intention to break and enter some place. He has been before the court this year for unlawful intimidation in connection with a Communist meeting in Christchurch, and had stowed away in the Wahine to Wellington.
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Evening Star, Issue 20981, 21 December 1931, Page 9
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110HOUSEBREAKING TOOLS Evening Star, Issue 20981, 21 December 1931, Page 9
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