CHARGE OF STEALING FROM SOLDIERS
(United Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 19. “It is a mean sort of thing to steal money belonging to soldiers going to the front,” said the Magistrate, Mr- C. R. Orr Walker, in the Magistrate’s Court in sentencing Frederick David Thompson, aged 21, a labourer, for the theft of money at Papakura military camp. Thompson pleaded guilty to stealing sums totalling £l9 odd. The police said he entered camp at Papakura on January 12 and was put in hospital on January 28 with eai trouble. He began to steal from soldiers’ clothing two days after entering the camp and was discharged from the military forces on February 13.
In March 1939 he was before the Court charged with attempted arson and admitted to probation for two years. Thompson was ordered to be detained for reformative purposes for a period of twelve months.
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Southland Times, Issue 24055, 20 February 1940, Page 6
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