SERIES OF OFFENCES
HOTEL PROPRIETOR DUPED REFORMATIVE DETENTION ORDERED (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Aug. 24. For offences committed while on probation, John Shelly KennardDavis, aged 25, an Englishman, was given reformative detention by Mr F H, Levien in the Police Court to-day. He was charged With stealing a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes valued at £ll 18s from a boarding house, incurring a debt of £7 9s for board, and obtaining £3 from an hotel proprietor by means of a valueless cheque. He pleaded guilty to all charges. The police produced a statement in which the accused said he had been working on the State housing at Orakei settlement as a carpenter’s labourer. He left the job and walked to the city, where he booked in at the Star Hotel under the name of “J. P. Wilson, London” That night he went to a party at Remuera, obtaining liquor from an hotel porter by signing for it, and also obtaining £3 from the hotel proprietor by giving him a cheque. He stole clothing from the boarding house where he had previously resided. The magistrate sentenced the accused to reformative detention for a period not exceeding 12 months.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23896, 25 August 1939, Page 10
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201SERIES OF OFFENCES Otago Daily Times, Issue 23896, 25 August 1939, Page 10
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