COURT NEWS
ACT OF DESPERATION. A LUCKY OFFENDER. WELLINGTON, August 2. A plunge through a plate glass window was adopted by Charles Christall to escape a constable who was chasing him from Tory Street, where he had I altempited to obtain money from a Chinaman by means of a false pretence. He appeared to-day, on this charge,, and also on a charge of committing mischief by wilfully break’ng a window valued at £43 19s fid, the property of Wright. Stevenson and Co. He was placed on two years’ probation, conditional on his taking out a prohibition order. The Magistrate classed the window episode as an net of desperation, not of deliberation.
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Grey River Argus, 3 August 1935, Page 7
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111COURT NEWS Grey River Argus, 3 August 1935, Page 7
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