THEFT OF TROUSERS
ELDERLY MAN’S TROUBLES. “MOST OF HIS TIME IN PRISON.” Herbert Daughty, alias Herbert Hall, 51 years of ago, was charged at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with the theft of a pair of trousers valued at £2 10s, the property of Patrick Scrimshaw. Detective-Sergeant Cameron said that the accused had stayed at a boardinghouse, and had left on Saturday morning, taking with him a pair of trousers. This he sold to a secondhand dealer for Bs. “He was released from prison in May last,” stated De-tective-Sergeant Cameron, “after serving a four-years’ sentence for theft. He has a long list of convictions, and seems to have spent most of his time in prison since 1896. He has not supported his wife and children, and is in arrears to the amount of £340.”
His Worship imposed' a sentence of three months imprisonment.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11705, 18 December 1923, Page 7
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142THEFT OF TROUSERS New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11705, 18 December 1923, Page 7
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