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POLICE COURT NEWS.

THEFTS FROM BEDROOMS. REMANDED FOR SENTENCE. The theft of a suitcase and contents, valued at £12, and a kit-bag, valued at £2, was admitted by Frederick Grant, aged 25, who appeared at the Police Court yesterday before Mr. J. W. Poynton, S.M. Accused also pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness. Acting-Detective Moon snid he had arrested accused in Victoria Street while the latter was attempting to dispose of the property mentioned in the charge. Grant finally admitted he had stolen them from bedrooms. Chief-Detective Cummings asked that accused be remanded, until next Monday for sentence, as he was a well-known criminal. The remand was granted. A VAGRANT WOMAN. A dishevelled woman, Harvey Kate Johnson, aged 42, admitted being a rogue and a vagabond. Accused had been found at tho back of an unoccupied house, in Eden Crescent. She had been recently admitted to probation for bigamy, and had a list of 13 previous convictions for disorderly conduct. The magistrate inflicted a sentence of two months' imprisonment.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18635, 29 April 1924, Page 5

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POLICE COURT NEWS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18635, 29 April 1924, Page 5

POLICE COURT NEWS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18635, 29 April 1924, Page 5