GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
.AN UNDESIRABLE SOLDIER. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Yesterday. At the Police Court, a sodlier named Alfred George Clegg, aged 2f>, pleaded guilty to numerous charges of theft? from unoccupied houses and from shilling slot gas meters, respecting which about a hundred complaints were made to the police. Accused was in Auckland when the latter thefts were committed. They ceased when ho left for Tauherenikau Camp, but when he returned to Auckland on leav further similar thefts were reported. Clegg admitted all the charges and also stated that a bank book in his posscsison was stolen from the coat of a man working near the military camp at Tauherenikau. He was sentenced to fourteen days',hard labor for theft of the bank book' and committee to the Supreme Court for sentence on nine other charges.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1916, Page 8
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135GENERAL TELEGRAMS. Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1916, Page 8
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