COURT NEWS
THEFT AND CHEQUE FRAUD. AUCKLAND, August 24. For offences committed while on probation, John Shelley KennardDavis, 25, an Englishman, was given reformative detention, by Mr. Levien, S.M., in the Police Court, today. He was charged with stealing a suit: of clothes and a pair of shoes, valued at £ll 18s, from a boarding house incurring a debt of £7 9s 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 Londo'n." 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 boarding-house where he previously resided.
The S.M. sentenced accused to reformative detention, for a period not exceeding 12 months.
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Grey River Argus, 25 August 1939, Page 12
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