LABOURER’S LIST OF OFFENCES
REMANDED FOR SENTENCE. (United Press Association.) Napier, September 18. Eric Alfred Chapman, a labourer, aged 23, faced 12 charges, including attempted suicide, breaking and entering, damaging a safe, the property of the New Zealand Government, having in his possession house-breaking implements and carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 16, at the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Most of the breaking and entering charges concerned operations in Napier and the surrounding districts. In a statement, the accused admitted the offences and added that his rub ber shoes, which left a peculiar mark of identification, were thrown into the Waikato river at Hamilton. He bought gelignite at Woodville and detonators in Napier. The accused pleaded guilty and was remanded for sentence to the Supreme Court at Wellington.
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Southland Times, Issue 22999, 19 September 1936, Page 5
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