THEFT OF CLOTHING
• « Salesman Who Dissipated £3BOO By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, January 25. A sentence of two years’ reformative detention was imposed to-day on Ronald Keir Duncan, aged 28, who pleaded guilty to charges of stealing clothing and radio sets. The police said that the radio set thefts were committed in AVellington. The young man was a radio salesman and came from a good family and had had a good education. At the age of 21 he was left £3BOO, but dissipated it all in twelve months. His mother one afternoon found him removing her sewing machine to sell it. Tie was concerned in a number of radio deals in AVellington, and had not his mother found the ready cash to satisfy angry customers he might have been charged with other offences, The magistrate said that? accused did not seem to be able to go straight, whether he had money or not.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 15
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152THEFT OF CLOTHING Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 15
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