DESPERATE ACT
PR CRE ATION FOR FRAUD /Per Press Association, Copyright). WELLILNGTON, August 2. A plunge through a plate glass window was adopted by Charles Christaß to escape a constable who was chasing him from Tory Street, where bo had attempted to obtain money front 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 breaking a window valued at £43, 19s 6d, the property of Wright, Stevenson and Co. He was placed on two years’ probation, conditional on his taking oiit a prohibition order. The Magistrate classed the window episode as an act of desperation, not of deliberation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1935, Page 5
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