SENTENCED FOR THEFT
“BLACK SHEEP” OF FAMILY (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, 25th May. A sentence of three months’ imprisonment was imposed by Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M., on Raymond William Hyland, aged 28, a baker, for theft of a suit of clothes and a fountain pen from the room of the proprietor of a city boarding-house. The police said the accused had been stopping with a family at Glen Eden. He had succeeded in convincing them that he was worth £16,000, and that a prominent solicitor was handling his estate. He became engaged to a young woman whose father was on sustenance and told the family they would have an elaborate wedding about Christmas. Suppression of the accused’s name was refused. Defending counsel said that Hyland’s family were eminently respectable and he was the black sheep.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 May 1936, Page 6
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135SENTENCED FOR THEFT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 May 1936, Page 6
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