THEFT OF ELECTRICITY
BRANDISHING A REVOLVER. WELLINGTON COURT CASES. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, August 29. Leonard Owen Bellett was convicted and fined £lO for stealing electricity, and was ordered to pay costs on a second charge of doing electrical wiring work without a license. Jack Ronald Bird, aged 23, who had been brandishing a revolver and threatening life, was to-day fined £5, in default two months’ imprisonment. The weapon was forfeited. He was employed on a farm under the Government subsidy scheme and the police, with whom he had had previous acquaintance, went out to investigate. The police said he was quite a dangerous man to have a firearm.
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Southland Times, Issue 22107, 30 August 1933, Page 8
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110THEFT OF ELECTRICITY Southland Times, Issue 22107, 30 August 1933, Page 8
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