DOMINION NEWS.
o CAR THIEVES SENTENCED. By Telegraph- —Press Association. . THAMES, Thursday. Gordon Way and George Thorburn were sentenced to six months' imprisonment for stealing a number of articles from a car outside the Royal Hotel, belonging to a party of hockey players. Way was also sentenced to one month on each of two charges of theft and breaking and entering. SUICIDE OF A RABITTER. DUNEDIN, Thursday. At the inquest on Thomas Mann, a rabitter aged 48, a verdict was returned that while temporarily insane he met his death by discharging a high explosive. Deceased lived at an old mining camp near Ranfurly. The evidence showed that deceased had ignited a quantity of explosive, and had then laid his body arross it. The trunk was blown away, and only the left shoulder, head and legs remained. THE BIRCH FOR THEFT. HASTING?, Thursday. A lad aged 14, convicted before the magistrate this morning of the theft, of £! 7s 9d cash from a shop, was ordered six strokes of the birch at the hands of a police constahlc. The circumstance.-, showed the L'left of a cheque and a forged endorsement, which' were not made the subject of the charge.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16095, 19 September 1924, Page 2
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197DOMINION NEWS. Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16095, 19 September 1924, Page 2
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