AN ASTONISHING STORY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16339, 13 May 1927, Page 8

AN ASTONISHING STORY

MANY DWELLINGS BROKEN INTO (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this clay. Arthur George Kenney appeared in the Police Court .tins morning on 24 charges of breaking, entering, and theft. An astonishing story of his wanderings between Mvansdale and Dunedin during the last four months was read in his signed statement. The incentive to breaking into the various dwellings and cribs was apparently mainly hunger. Invariably accused's stay in unoccupied cribs was marked by much feasting, and rarely did he hinder himself with anything not useful to his wanderings. On one occasion after breaking into a crib at St. Leo-' nurds and hoarding himself gratis for two days, lie embarked on an old row boat and bad rather a perilous three-hour voyage in the leaky tub to Broad Bay, continuing his wanderings and depredations among the east hurlior cribs. Sometimes Denney was without food for days, sleeping among the lupins, and then ..some weeks ago he hintself of the good tilings stored in Neill’s bond in the city, and made an entry in the fashion described recently, living heartily on tinned foods, champagne, etc., hiding )ty day among the rafters. Often during bin lonely wanderings lie sat in the scrub about Ravensbottrne watching his former home, where his wife, and baby lived. The latter was born after he quitted home for the hills, and one of his first questions after arrest was. "Is it a hoy or a girl - ;'’

Kenney pleaded guilty to all the charges, and was committed for sentence,