THEFTS FROM SLOT TELEPHONES
(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evenirr Post.") CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Within the past few weeks many slot telephones in the suburbs have been broken irito and money has been taken from them. To-day Sydney Stringer (20) admitted to the Magistrate that he had damaged sixteen telephones to the extent of £38 5s sd, and also admitted stealing £.8 14s 9d, the property of the Postmaster-General, and £50, the property of Emily Fanny Brown, of Wellington. The Chief-Detective said that the aeeused had been in New. Zealand for five years. He had been committed to a reformatory in England for five years for theft. He had done very little work in this country, and in October began breaking telephones. Mr. Justice Stringer sentenced him to three years' reformative detention.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1926, Page 9
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