POWELKA BEFORE THE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 101, 29 April 1910, Page 2

POWELKA BEFORE THE COURT.

PRISONER CLOSELY GUABDED. AN EXCITED SPECTAIOB, CALLS POWELKA A HERO. CBy Telegraph.—Press Association.} / PAI_IERSTOX NORTH, this day. Powelka arrived at Palrnerston North at midday to-day, from Wellington. There was a large crowd to meet him, and-an-other equally large at the Courthouse. Accused, when he alighted from the train, was handcuffed between two policemen, and was closely attended by a warder and other members of the police force. As they walked along the platform one of the crowd called out, " You're a hero, Powelka," a remark which prisoner acknowledged with a smile. Powelka appeared before the Court at noon, on a —barge of breaking and entering Dixon's butcher's shop at Terrace/End in°July last, and taking a steel valued at 10/6.

When Powelka. returns to Wellington he will be charged with the murder ol Sergeant Maguire, and this charge will be heard about May 6. The ease was dismissed, on the ground that the period between the date of theft, July, 1909, and February, 1910, when the

goods were found in Powelka's possession, was too long to require the accused to account for it.

Accused is now before the Court on a charge of breaking and entering and theft at the premises of Miss Mackay, dressmaker. He will also be charged 'with, arson at the same premises.