SOLDIER IN COURT
NUMEROUS CHARGES OF THEFT. By Telegraph—Pre® Association. Auckland, January 10. At til© Police Court, a soldier -named Alfred George Clogg, aged 25 years, pleaded guilty to numerous charges of thefts l'rom unoccupied houses and from shilling slot gas-meters, in respect of which about a hundred complaints were made to the police. Accuscd was in Auckland when the latter thefts were committed. They ceased when lie left for Tauhereiiikau Camp; wlien lie returned to Auckland on leave further similar thefts wore reported. Clegg admitted all tho charges, and also stated that a bauk book in his possession liad been stolen from a coat of a man working near the military camp at 1 T.-ui-hcrenikau. Ho was sentenced to fourteen days' hard labour for tho theft of tho hank book, and committed to flie Supremo Court for sentence on nine other charges.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 8
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143SOLDIER IN COURT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 8
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