UNUSUAL CHARGE
CASE AT GREYMOUTH. Per Press Association. GREYMOUTH, May 16. . An unusual case was heard at the Greymouth Magistrates Court this morning, when Ja.mes William Kennington, alias George Robert Kennington, was charged with committing mischief and wilfully damaging a V2 Police Gazette, the property of the Government, to the value of IQs. Detectivo-Hergcant Knight, in evidence, said the Gazette was strictly confidential, comprising a weekly record of police and criminal work in New Zealand. The Gazettes were bound into annual volumes, which could not be replaced, and were practically indispensable to the police. On the night of May 13 an assault occurred m Greymouth and a constable took several persons, including accused to the police station. Accused was left in tlio watch-house whilst the others wei e questioned. He went to the 1932 volume of the Gazette, containing his own record and photograph, and tore out and took away the page relating to himself. Accused subsequently admitted the offence. Mr Morgan, S.M., fined accused £2, or seven days’ imprisonment.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 142, 18 May 1936, Page 8
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170UNUSUAL CHARGE Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 142, 18 May 1936, Page 8
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