ROGUES AND VAGABONDS.
—> [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 21. Thomas Ramsay and Edward Burrows were found guilty at the Supreme Court of being rogues and vagabonds. These are the men who were arrested in June last on a charge of dynamiting a safe ait an hotel at Lyttelton. They were found to have a number of burglar’s tools in their possession and a considerable sum of money. As sufficient evidence 1 was not forthconmo that charge was dropped, and the police proceeded oa the change on which the prisoners were now convicted. The Chief Justice said that he concurred in the verdict, and would inflict the maximum penalty of one year’s imprisonment.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12586, 22 August 1901, Page 5
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112ROGUES AND VAGABONDS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12586, 22 August 1901, Page 5
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