CRIMINAL’S UNLUCKY DAY.
Per Press Association. HAMILTON. April 17. Friday, April 13, was an unlucky day for John Ross, aged thirty-eight years, a man with several aliases, who was sentenced to two years’ reformative detention by Mr S. L. Paterson in the Magistrate’s Court at Hamilton, when he appeared on remand on two charges of theft. It was disclosed that Ross was released from gaol on April 10. three days being the extent of his freedom. Ross, who pleaded guilty, was charged with steahrg a rain coat, a rug and a clock valued at £ll 10s, the property Richard Muir and another, at New Plymouth: and with stealing two attache cases and contents, valued at £7 10s, the property of Kenneth Oswald Wiggins, at New Ply mouth.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 4
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127CRIMINAL’S UNLUCKY DAY. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20283, 18 April 1934, Page 4
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