SOLDIER CHARGED WITH THEFT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 10 January 1916, Page 7

SOLDIER CHARGED WITH THEFT

AUCKLAND, 10. At the Police Court a soldier namfed .Alfred George Clegg, aged 25,' pleaded .guilty to numerous charges of theft jrom unoccupied houses and^ from .shilling-in-the-slot " gas meters, rejspecting which about a hundred complaints had been made to the police. Accused was in Auckland when .the latter thefts were' committed, and they ceased when he left- for Tauhereoiikau camp, but when he returned to Auckland on leave further similai "thefts j.wei'3 reported. Clegg admitted all the charges; and 3ilso stated that, a bank book in his possession had been stolen from the •coafc of a man working near the mili--fcary camp at Tauherenikau. Accused was sentenced to fourteen .days' hard labor for theft of the bank "book, and committed to the -Supreme IDourt for sentence on nine other