TWELVE CHARGES
YOUNG MAN PLEADS GUILTY [Per United Press Association.] NAPIER, September 18. Eric Alfred Chapman, a labourer, 23 years of age, faced 12 charges, including attempted suicide, breaking and entering, damaging a safe, the property of the New Zealand Government, having in his possession housebreaking implements, and carnal knowledge of a girl under the age of 16, at the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Most of the breaking and entering charges were concerned in operations in Napier and the surrounding districts. In a statement accused admitted the offences. He added that his rubber shoes, which left a peculiar mark of identification, were thrown into the Waikato River at Hamilton. He bought gelignite at Woodville and detonators in Napier. The accused pleaded guilty, and was remanded for sentence to Wellington.
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Evening Star, Issue 22447, 18 September 1936, Page 12
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129TWELVE CHARGES Evening Star, Issue 22447, 18 September 1936, Page 12
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