MAN IS SENT TO GAOL FOR THEFT.
“ HAS HAD WARNINGS,” SAYS MAGISTRATE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, December 21. “I shall have to impose a term of imprisonment,” said Mr Page, S.M. “This man has been welt educated and has had previous warnings, in the sense that he has been twice convicted of serious offences.” The accused was Eric Donald Ross, aged twenty-nine, who a few years ago was a solicitor practising in Christchurch, and was before the Court in May, 1926, and in August of the same year on charges of theft, and sentencedto reformative detention, afterwards going to Australia, where he worked as a journalist. He returned to New Zealand a few weeks ago, and to-day pleaded guilty to the theft of a suitcase and its contents from the passage-way of a hotel, and a travelling rug from a shop doorway.
He was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 21 December 1928, Page 10
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