UNLAWFUL POSSESSION
ATTEMPTED CONCEALMENT. ; 'ECOND-HAND DEALER GAOLED. (Special to “Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, Monday. / Sentence of six months’ imprisonment with hard labour for theft .was passed upon a second-hand • dealer,’ Howard Duran (31), in the Supreme Court this morning. Mr Justice Herdman said the police report about Duran contained a great deal of information, the greater part of which ho did not feel justified in using. The prisoner had been served with a “stock notice,” in accordance with the police practice of obtaining information from certain dcalerr-when property was reported to be stolen from houses. Certain articles of stolen: ,j< wellcry, which the prisoner had in his possession, had been thrown into the harbour, and there appeared to be no doubt that he originally intended to keep these goods. The jewels had boon taken out of two rings which he had received, and that suggested an attempt to conceal the identity of the articles, Ivv “Yon took possession of theste articles and made up your mind to appropriate them,” aaia, his Honour to the prisoner. “In the end, for the. r.nrpnse of covering up your tracks; you throw them into the harbour.”
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Northern Advocate, 3 November 1931, Page 3
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