SIXTEEN ’PHONES SMASHED BY YOUTH.
YOUNG MIGRANT GETS TERM OF DETENTION.
Within the past few weeks many slot telephones in the suburbs have been broken into and the money extracted from them.
To-day at the Magistrate’s Court Sydney Stringer, aged twenty, admitted damaging sixteen telephones to the extent of £3B 5s sd. He pleaded guilty also to stealing £8 14s 9d, the property of the Postmaster-General, and to stealing £SO, the property of Emily Fanny Brown, at Wellington. Chief-Detective Gibson said that accused had been in New Zealand for five years. He admitted having been committed to a reformatory in England for five years for theft from a dwelling. He had done very little work in this country, and on October 1 he began breaking into telephones. Before coming to Christchurch he stole £SO from a woman in Wellington. On the first charge the Magistrate (Mr Lowry) sentenced Stringer to three years’ reformative detention. On each of the other charges he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentepce if called upon within six months.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18012, 24 November 1926, Page 1
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