ANOTHER CASE OF BREAKING. OUT.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 143, 18 June 1888, Page 5

ANOTHER CASE OF BREAKING. OUT.

An old offender, named James Bloomfield,was charged at the Police Court this morning, before Mr H. C. Baddeley, R.M., with feloniously breaking out of the residence of James Cartmill, at the Domain, on the 3rd of March, 1888. Sergeant-Major Pratt appeared on behalf of the police.

James Cartmill deposed that he was a gardener residing in the Domain. On the 3rd of March he was working near his residence. He returned to his house between 230 and 3 o'clock, when he found the kitchen window open, also the door. When he wenb inside he saw clothes laying on the floor. He opened the door leading into the parlour, and-there he saw the prisoner standing within a few feet of him. Witness asked him who he was. He replied that his name was Bloomiield, a gardener by trade, and that he was hard up. He also said that if witness would give him one chance he would nob trouble him any more. Wit: ness asked what he wanted. Prisoner replied "Money or jewellery." ; Witness told him that he would uob get much, and opened the door to bring him outside, when the prisoner made a bound for the kitchen door and shut it behind him. That was the last he saw of him. He was quite sure that the prisoner in the dock was the man. He found that the lids had been broken off the children's money-boxes.

Jane Cartmill, wife of the last witness, deposed to meeting the prisoner about 150 yards from the house on the day in question. He was going towards the back of their house.

The man was arrested at Cambridge, where he was working as a gardener.

Prisoner was committed to take his trial