SUM OF MONEY STOLEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19501, 3 December 1926, Page 16

SUM OF MONEY STOLEN.

ASSAULT ON DETECTIVE.

MAN PUNISHED AT WELLINGTON

[by telegraph.—own correspondent. ] WELLINGTON. Thursday.

"It was a foolish act on my part," said Donald Sutherland Murray Grant, a labourer, aged 53, who pleaded guilty in the Wellington Magistrate's Court today, before Mr E. Page, S.M., to stealing £24. the property of John William Davies. Accused also admitted having assaulted Detective William Kane in the execution of his duty.

Chief-Detective Ward said that in October last tho accused . was given £24 by Davies to buy a horse and cart, but he, disappeared without making the purchase. Recently ho was located in a Wellington hotel by Detective Kane, who asked him to go to the detective office. Accused went a few yards and then struck the detective on the jaw. He had to bo held down and handcuffed before he could bo taken to the station. "He is a man of very vicious disposition," said the chief detective, "and has a long list of convictions for falso pretences and theft." Tho magistrate imposed a sentence of nine months' imprisonment with hard labour on the first chargo, and one month's imprisonment with hard labour on the second charge, the terms to be cumulative.