LIST OF TWELVE CHARGES
LABOURER PLEADS GUILTY BREAKING- AND ENTERING, Press Association.) NAPIER, this day. Eric Alfred Chapman, a labourer, aged 23 years, to-day faced 12 charges, including attempted suicide, breaking ad entering, damaging a safe, the property of the New Zealand Government, having in his possession housebreaking implements, and carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 10 years. The charges were preferred in the Magistrate's Court. Most of the breaking and entering charges concerned operations in Napier and surrounding districts.
In a statement, the accused admitted the offences. He added that his rubber shoes, which left a peculiar mark of identification, were thrown into the Waikato River at Hamilton. He bought gelignite in YVoodvillc and detonators iu Napier. The accused pleaded guilty to the charges and was remanded to Wellington for sentence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 15
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135LIST OF TWELVE CHARGES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19124, 19 September 1936, Page 15
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