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CLERK FOUND GUILTY (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 20. “ Guilty ” was the verdict returned by the jury in the Supreme Court in Wellington to-day at the trial of Geoffrey Spicer Kean, aged 22, a clerk, for breaking and entering the house of Miss K. M. Reston, Napier, on Easter Monday with intent to commit a crime. He was remanded for sentence. Answering Mr Justice Reed after the jury had brought in its verdict, Kean said he had been convicted on six charges of theft in Nelson and was on probation. The Crown Prosecutor, Mr W. H. Cunningham, conducted the prosecution, and Mr H. F. O’Leary, K.C., with him Mr W. P. Rollings, appeared for the accused.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23866, 21 July 1939, Page 11
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