"WORTH £16,000"
BAKER'S SHABBY TRICK [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 25. A sentence of three months was imposed by Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., on Raymond William Hyland (28), a baker, for the theft of a suit of clothes and a fountain pen from the room of the proprietor of a city boarding house. The police said the accused had been stopping with a family at Glen Eden, and succeeded in convincing them that he was worth £16,000, and that a prominent solicitor .was handling his estate. He became engaged to a young woman whose father was on sustenance. He told the family they would have an elaborate wedding about Christmas. Suppression of the name was refused. Defending counsel said the family was eminently respectable, and accused was the black sheep.
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Evening Star, Issue 22347, 25 May 1936, Page 8
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131"WORTH £16,000" Evening Star, Issue 22347, 25 May 1936, Page 8
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