ENGLISHMAN’S OFFENCES
THEFT AND FALSE PRETENCES.
[PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, August 24. For offences committed while on probation, John Shelly Kennard-Davis, 25, an Englishman, was given reformative detention, by Mr. Levien, S.M., in the Police Court, to-day. He was charged with stealing a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes, valued at £ll/18, from a boarding house, incurring a debt of £7/9 for board, and obtaining £3 from an hotel proprietor by means of a valueless cheque. He pleaded guilty to all charges. The police produced a statement, in which accused said he had been working on. State housing at Orakei, as a carpenter’s labourer. He left the job, walked to the city, and booked in at the Star Hotel, under the name of “J. P. Wilson, of London.” That night he went’to a party at Remuera, obtaining liquor from the hotel porter by signing for it, also obtaining £3 from the hotel proprietor, by giving a cheque. He stole the clothing from a boardinghouse where he previously resided. The .S.M. sentenced accused to reformative detention, for a period not exceeding 12 months.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 August 1939, Page 8
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184ENGLISHMAN’S OFFENCES Greymouth Evening Star, 24 August 1939, Page 8
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