POLICE COURT NEWS.
Six Months’ Imprisonment for Theft. Six months’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed on John Buffers M’Kenzie, thirty-one years of age, by Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in the Police Court this morning. M’Kenzie pleaded guilty to the theft of a rug, a pair of binoculars, an overcoat, a bottle of whisky and two bottles of wine, of a total value of £9 Os 6d, the property of John Francis Kellett. The offence occurred at Wellington. Chief-Detective Dunlop said that M’Kenzie was sentenced to three years’ reformative detention in 1928 on charges of obtaining credit by fraud. Assault Charge. Thomas Herbert M’Laughlan, a labourer, fifty-seven years of age, was convicted and discharged on a charge of assaulting William Whitty by hitting him with a walking stick. Drunkenness. William Brown, a labourer, forty-one years of age, was fined 20s and costs, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment, for a second offence of drunkenness.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20256, 16 March 1934, Page 8
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