STOLEN MEDALS.
YOUNG MAN’S OFFENCE. Alexander Arrold Heney, a man about twenty years of age, came up for sentence in the Supreme Court today for stealing medals from his aunt. Airs M. Fraser, at Peel Forest. The medals were shooting trophies, Avon by Mr Fraser, who now lives at Te Kuiti. Heney took .jewels out of the medals, set them in rings, and pawned the rings in Christchurch. Mr H. D. Aoland. for Heney, said that the crime, apparently, was committed under a sudden impulse. Heney made a clean breast to the police, otherwise there would have been no evidence against him. He had refunded the ’ money he obtained for the jewels. He had been a good son and a good worker in the Peel Forest district. Air A. T. Donnelly. Crown Prosecutor. said that Honey had made restitution -ns far as possible. All the medals had been returned to Airs Fraser. Although some were minus the jewels, the inscriptions were not deTho prisoner was admitted to probation let* three years and was ordered to pay costs of the prosecution.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17169, 12 October 1923, Page 1
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