THEFT OF BICYCLE,
YOUTH’S BAD RECORD. BORSTAL DETENTION ORDERED. A youth of 18, Walter Thomas Martin, was sentenced to two years’ detention in a Borstal Institute, by Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.ivL, in the Hamilton Magistrate's Court yesterday, for stealing a bicycle, valued at £2, the property of John Barr, of Rukuhia. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney said accused had been reared by the State, and had been licensed out. He hau absconded, and bad been convicted of theft several times.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18247, 7 February 1931, Page 5
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79THEFT OF BICYCLE, Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18247, 7 February 1931, Page 5
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