SERIES OF THEFTS
PRISON FOR OFFENDER MAGISTRATE'S WARNING [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DUXEDIN, Wednesday "An incorrigible thief and rogue," was the description given by ChiefDctective Young to Arnold Vaughan Sutton, who admitted a series of thefts in tho Police Court to-day. Sutton was sentenced by Mr. J. It. Bartholomew, S.M., to three months' imprisonment, with a warning that he was qualifying to become an habitual criminal. The police stated that Sutton stole a clress suit from the private hotel where he was stopping, a choque book belonging to the deacons' court of tho Presbyterian Church, and two sets of lingerie from a woman in Coker's Hotel, Christchurch, where accused was stopping. He was released from gaol only last July.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22983, 10 March 1938, Page 21
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