THIEF IMPRISONED

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 July 1933, Page 9

THIEF IMPRISONED

“A TERRIBLE LIST.” [per press association.] WELLINGTON, July 3. Leslie Clifforg Arthur Payne pleaded guilty at the Magistrate’s Court to two charges of theft, and a charge of being unlawfully in possession of explosives. The police stated that he booked a room at a boardinghouse on June 16, but instead of occupying the room he stole a suit of clothes from a boarder’s room, then went to a Salvation Army Rest Home where he stole a blanket, When arrested, some gelignite and detonators were found in his possession, H e said that he got them in Auckland to blow open a safe. ~ a... Detective-Sergeant Revell said that the man had a .terrible list, dating from 1915, and the police were investigating a number of offences he was alleged to have committed in other parts of the North Island. . ; > Mr Page sentenced him to a total of six months’ imprisonment. STOLE TO ENTERTAIN. CHRISTCHURCH, July 3., A series of thefts from dance hall cloak rooms, and from clothes lines, and also bicycles, were admitted by Ronald Bertie Moher, 26, car painter, and Mason Samuel Branch, 17, labourMoher was sentenced to six months’ hard labour and 18 months’ reformative detention. Branch was probationed for two years. , The police said that the stolen property was valued at £4O. Most of the proceeds went on taxis and entertaining women friends.