THEFT OF SUIT.
SENTENCE DETERRED. INVERCARGILL, February 16. At the Invercargill Police Court to-day Patrick Joseph Clemenger was charged with stealing a suit of clothes, valued at £3 15s, the property of Annie Brooks, at Dunedin. He pleaded guilty. DetectiveSergeant Carroll said that the accused had visited the second-hand shop kept by complainant, and had tried to sell her a watch. She refused to buy it,, however, and they left the shop together. Later he returned and took the suit, which he sold to another man further down the street. He was appearing before the Supreme Court at the next sitting to be sentenced on a charge of breaking and entering and theft. Clemenger was convicted, and sentence was deferred .pntil March 2, after he had been dealt with by the Supreme Court.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3806, 22 February 1927, Page 78
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133THEFT OF SUIT. Otago Witness, Issue 3806, 22 February 1927, Page 78
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