TWO YEARS' IMPRISONMENT
ISSUING VALUELESS CHEQUES ATTEMPT TO STAB DETECTIVE. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 23. When a man named Walter Phillip Hailes, aged 31, pleaded guilty to-day to six -charges of fraud by valueless cheques, the police said that on June 13 two detectives went to his house to interview him, and he suddenly cut his throat with a breadknife. Still holding the knife, he fought the detectives until overpowered, and tried to stab one detective, who had his hand cut He was taken to the hospital, and was there till Monday last. ' He was sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, to be followed by a year's reformative detention.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21988, 24 June 1933, Page 12
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