SUSPICIOUS ACTIONS
VAGRANT WITH JEMMY AND TORCH. (By Telegraph. Press Association). WELLINGTON, Monday. Suspicious movements on the part of Ronald Hicks Tate om Saturday night led to detectives questioning him, and as a result Hicks was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by Mr W. H. Woodward, S.M., to-day, on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond in that he was found unlawfully in possession of a housebreaking instrument. The police stated that detectives found him with a jemmy and torch, and he admitted his intention to break and enter some place. Te had been before the Court this year for unlowful intimidation in connection with a Communist meeting in Christchurch, and had stowed away in the Wahine to Wellington.
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Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3391, 22 December 1931, Page 5
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