A NIGHT THIEF.
BASE AT ARMY HOME. [THE PEESS 8peol»I Service.] WELLINGTON, January S. "It appears that the accused has been using the Army home as a base from which ha conies forth ab night to steal," said Chief Detective Ward in the Magistrate's Court to<lay when Leslie Robert Ashiield, a seaman, aged 20, admitted the theft from a motorcar of a suitcase containing article* worth £35 belonging to Norman Henry Fraser.
Ashfield, the Chief Detective added, came to the Dominion ' as a seaman eight months ago. He had already served a jmonth's imprisonment for theft, and he had also been convicted and ordered to come up for sontenoo when called upon for vagrancy. Of tho articles which were in the stolen suitcase £l3 worth had been sold and had not been recovered.
Accused was remanded to appear on Friday for sentence. In tho meantime the Probation Officer is to make a report.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 6
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153A NIGHT THIEF. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 6
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