Varsity Student Charged With Theft
MISSING TRAM CARD TRAP LEADS TO ARREST From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Today. A University student, Henry Stewart Moore Roulston, aged 28, was charged with the theft of a tram concession card, valued at 3s, before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court today. On tbe application of the police, accused was remanded to appear at Auckland on October 25. Detective White said a concession card was stolen from the Auckland University, where a lot of pilfering had taken place lately. As a result of a trap set the present charge had been laid. Mr. J. F. Strang, for Roulston, in applying for suppression of the name, said his client was working at Arapuui when he was arrested. He was a student at the university, having secured the bachelor of science and engineering degrees. The charge would be defended.
In refusing suppression of the name, the magistrate said he could see no reason for such a course: the age of did not justify it. Bail was fixed in one surety of £lO.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 800, 22 October 1929, Page 1
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