CITY POLICE COURT
Wednesday, September 20. (Before Mr J. R, Bartholomew, S.M.) DRUNKENNESS. A first offender for drunkenness was fined 12s 6d, in default 24 hours’; imprisonment, and a statutory first offender, Ernest Alfred Woods, was convicted and discharged. V STUDENT CHARGED. A University student was charged, with the theft of books valued at £5 and (the wilful damaging of a book valued at 6s, the property of the Dunedin Athenaeum. The accused was represented by Mr L. E. Simpson, whose application for suppression of the name until the facts are gone into, was granted.—Chief Detective Young said that the young man had attempted to commit suicide by cutting a vein in his wrist with a piece of broken glass from a cell window. He was still confined to hospital, and for that reason a remand for another week was required. —The magistrate granted the remand.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22064, 21 September 1933, Page 14
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