AN UNUSUAL CHARGE.
POLICE GAZETTE TORN. DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS. (By Telegrapn.—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, Saturday. An unusual case was heard at the Greymouth Magistrate’s Court this morning when James William Kennington, alias George Robert Kennlngton was charged with committing mischief and wilfully damaging a police gazette, the property of the Government to the value of 10s. Detective-Sergeant Knight gave evidence that the Gazette was strictly confidential, comprising a weekly record of the police and criminal work in New Zealand. The Gazettes were bound into annual volumes which could not be replaced and were practically indispensable to the police. On the night, of May 13 an assault occurred in Greymouth and a constable took several persons, including the accused. to the police station. The accused was left, in the watch-house while others were questioned. He went to the 1932 volume of the Gazette containing his own record and photograph and tore out and took away a page relating to himself. Accused subsequently admitted the offence. Mr H. Morgan, S.M. fined the accused £2 in default seven days’ Imprisonment.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 8
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176AN UNUSUAL CHARGE. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 8
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