THEFT AND ASSAULT
ROGUE OBJECTS TO CAPTURE Donald Sutherland Murray Grant, a labourer (aged 53), pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court yesterday to stealing £24, the property of John William Davies, and also admitted having assaulted Detective William Kane in the execution of his duty. Chief-Detective Ward said that, m October, accused was given £24 by Davies to buy a horse and cart, but disappeared without making the purchase Recently he was located in a Wellington , hotel by Dectectivo Kane, who asked him to go to tjio detective office. Accused went a few yards, then struck the detective on the iaw. He had to be held down and handcuffed before he could be taken to the station. Accused had a long list of previous convictions for false pretences and theft. Mr. E. Page, S.M., imposed a sen fence of nine months’ imprisonment with hard labour on the first charge, and one month with hard labour on the second, the sentence to be cumalative.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 17
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163THEFT AND ASSAULT Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 59, 3 December 1926, Page 17
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