SOLDIER’S CRIMES
POSTED AS DESERTER SERIES OF THEFTS ADMITTED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) DUNEDIN, Friday Breaking camp at Ngaruawahia on Mgy 16, James Albert Kean, a member of the 7th Anti-Tank Corps, Second, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, converted a motor-cycle and commenced a career of crime that came to a full stop this morning, when he appeared in court and admitted six charges of theft of goods and money, of a total value of £23 2s 4d, committing mischief, and the conversion of a cycle. The police said Kean made his first stop at Hawera, where he stole some clothing, and later worked his way down through the South Island to Dunedin. Here he occupied a room in an hotel with another man, who was the worse for liquor, and stole £7 10s from him. This money, the cycle and nearly all the article!; and money involved had been recovered. Kean, who had been posted as a deserter, was ordered to be held in custody till tomorrow, when the military authorities will take charge of him. The charges against him were adjourned sine die.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 3
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183SOLDIER’S CRIMES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 3
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