SERIES OF OFFENCES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 150, 6 April 1933, Page 3

SERIES OF OFFENCES.

YOUNG MAN FOR SENTENCE (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, April 5. Jack Harry Payne, aged 26, a labourer, pleaded guilty in the, Magistrate's Court to a charge of robbery with violence, and also to 12 charges of breaking, entering and theft, and one of breaking and entering with intent to commit theft. The majority of the places entered by Payne belonged to Chinese. Several of the charges related to offences at Wellington and others to offences at Wanganui, Palmerston North, Akura, Dannevirke and Hastings. The Magistrate said he did not consider it necessary to hear formal evidence on each charge, but Ngan Kay Fun was called to give his version of the affair at his place. He said that about 11 p.m. on January 16 a man called. Witness was sitting behind the counter, and when he got up he saw the man had an automatic pistol in his hand. When witness tried to get from the back of the counter, the man attacked him, hitting him oyer the head with the gun. The man took about £6 from the till, and escaped from the shop.. Evidence was also given in relation to two other premises broken into and robbed. The accused was committed for sentence.