CANVASSER'S THEFTS.
YEAR'S DETENTION ORDERED. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HAMILTON, Wednesday. "The accused seems to have a fixed propensity for theft," said Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court to-day, when sentencing Douglas Hinau Moore, aged 21, to be detained for reformative purposes far 12 months. The accused pleaded guilty to two charges of theft. According to Senior-Sergeant Sweeney, the accused was canvassing for orders for house-painting and papering work in the Tatuanui district on January 12. Finding the house of Mr. C. H. Murphy temporarily unoccupied, he stole £3 5s 6d from a pair of trousers in a wardrobe. He alsc went to the house of Mr. L. R. Woodley and, finding no one at home, stole a watch, valued at £4 ss, and 15s 6d in money. The senior sergeant said accused had been convicted twice previously for theft and once for assault, and had been admitted to probation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21086, 21 January 1932, Page 11
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