MAN WITH GELIGNITE.
TERRIBLE LIST OF CONVICTIONS. SIX MONTHS’ IMPRISONMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, -Monday. Leslie Clifford Arthur Payne pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to two charges of theft and a charge of being unlawfully in possession of explosives. The police stated that accused booked a room at a hoarding-house on June 16, but instead of occupying the room, he stole a suit of clothes from a boarder’s room, and then went to the Salvation Army rest home, where he stole a blanket. When he was arrested some gelignite and detonators were found in his possession. He said ne got them In Auckland to blow open a safe. Detective-Sergeant Revell said the man had a terrible list of convictions, dating from 1915, and the police were investigating a number of offences he was alleged to have committed in other parts of the North Island. , Mr Page, S.M.,' sentenced accused to a total of six months’ imprisonment.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 18987, 3 July 1933, Page 7
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157MAN WITH GELIGNITE. Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 18987, 3 July 1933, Page 7
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