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WOULD-BE THIEF SENTENCED. (By Tele graph—Per Press Association; WELLINGTON, December 21. Suspicious movements on .the part of Ronald Hicks, late on Saturday ■night, led to detectives- questioning him, and as a result Hicks was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by Mr Woodward, >S.M., to-day. Hicks' was charged with being a rogue and vagabond, in that he was found unlawfully in possession of a house-breaking instrument. Detectives found him with a jemmy and a torch, and he admitted his intention to break and enter some place. He had been before the Court, this year, for unlawful intimidation, in connection with a Communist meeting in Christchurch, and had stowed away in the Wahine ,to Wellington.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1931, Page 5
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