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BORSTAL FOR GRAMOPHONE THIEF RAN AWAY WITH CIRCUS From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Today. Charged with theft of *a gramophone and seven records at Mangateparu, the property of the Education Department, also a camera from a bus at Te Aroha, Herbert Lloyd Darton appeared before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., in the Police Court today. He was sentenced to a term not exceeding two years at Borstal. Police evidence showed that accused broke into the school at Mangateparu and stole a gramophone. On a later occasion he visited the school and took the records. Accused, who was weak mentally, was at present on probation for theft at New Plymouth. He had also been before the court at Hamilton for theft. On that occasion he was fined £lO. He had run away from home with a circus when living at Morrinsville.
On a further charge of forging the signature of S. J. Phillips to a cheque for £lO at Te Aroha, accused was remanded to appear at Morrinsville on Tuesday.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 1
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