BURGLARY CHARGES
ACCUSED PLEADS GUILTY [Per Tress Association] NAPIER, Sept. 18. Eric Alfred Chapman, labourer, aged 23 years, faced twelve charges, including attempted suicide, breaking and entering, and several of damaging safe property of the New Zealand Government, having possession of housebreaking implements, carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 16, at the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Most of the breaking and entering charges concerned operations in Napier and surrounding districts. In a statement accused admitted the offences and added that his rubber shoes, which left a peculiar mark of identification, were thrown into the Waikato River at Hamilton. He bought gelignite at Woodville and detonators at Napier. Accused pleaded guilty and was remanded for sentence to Wellington.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 222, 19 September 1936, Page 10
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120BURGLARY CHARGES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 222, 19 September 1936, Page 10
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