STOLE SUIT OF CLOTHES
THLEF SENT TO GAOL STORY OF WEALTH (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. A sentence of three months'' gaol was imposed by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., to-day on Raymond William Mvland, aged 28 years, a baker, for the theft of a suit of clothes and a fountain pen from the room of the proprietor of a city boardinghouse. The police said that the accused had been stopping with a family jut Glen Eden, and had succeeded in convincing them that he was worth £IO,OOO, and that a prominent solicitor was handling Ins estate. He became engaged to a young women whose father was on sustenance. He told the family hint they would have an elaborate'wedding about Christmas. The suppression of the name of the accused av.ii.s refused. Defending counsel said that the family was an eminently respectable one, and the accused was the " black sheep.''
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 13
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149STOLE SUIT OF CLOTHES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19023, 25 May 1936, Page 13
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