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TWO CHARGES OF THEFT TOOK RING AND SUITCASE Press AssoctatrouWELLINGTON, Friday. “I shall have to impose a term of imprisonment,” said Mr. E. Page, S.M., this morning. ‘‘This man has been well educated, and has had previous warning. In a sense he has been twice convicted of serious offences.” The accused was Eric Donald Ross, aged 29, who, a few years ago, was a solicitor practising in Christchurch, and was before the court in May 1926 and in August of the same year on charges of theft and sentenced to reformative detention, afterwards going to Australia where he worked as a journalist. He returned to New Zealand a few weeks ago. and to-day pleaded guilty to the theft of a suit case and contents from the passage-way of an hotel and of a travelling rug from a shop doorway. He was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 6
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149GAOL FOR SOLICITOR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 6
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