MAN’S THEFT OF SCISSORS
CONVICTION AND DISCHARGE.
William Roy Dunlop, aged 21, a single man of no fixed abode, was convicted and discharged at the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday when he Reared charged with the theft at New ymouth on February 26 of a pair of scissors valued at 5« 6 d the. property of Charles Newson Bird, Dunlop remains in custody to go to Nelson on warnmt to face a charge of breaking and entering. Detective P. Kearney stated to the presiding justices of the peace, Messrs G Fraser and W. W. Thomson, that Dunlop had been in the company of a man named Townsend, who had already received seven days’ imprisonment for the theft of a pouch from Bird s premises. It was at the same time that Dunlop took the scissors. As far as was known by the police he had no previous convictions.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19340306.2.22
Bibliographic details
Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1934, Page 3
Word Count
148MAN’S THEFT OF SCISSORS Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1934, Page 3
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.