SONGS WORTH £60,000.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 5 July 1926, Page 5

SONGS WORTH £60,000.

IN PARRAMATTA GAOL. £500 FOR THEIR RESCUE. j TWELVE Ni'iNTHS FOR -TEALIV ,-| kADDK.i: Th. a pp.- .rau.-e ~i Fed-;-; !: -I . -o:> A:i;he.- 'at the I'.trraniatta I'ol'.cc Court, one day '.i-f week, uj- a -e>|Uel ;> t'.ii: recent attempt to break into: I'arratr.atta i.acd. H • ivn- charged wita ia\;nsr stolen tiie la.bier u-ed on that ■ ea-.ioii. i -.M-_-art Wai-'.i .1..1 t 'at Antue-. •.viien arrested, admitted the tiiefr. an>l -aid tiiat In- wanted to iret into tie, 2:ioi io -c. uro some ■■■utr.s ii - hail written i\hi!-> a p.i-.n.-. he. said that he had a contra - e-ith l*sil>n_: - for : .-• ' songs. -A.1...1 he \aiu.d at Clin. Mill. ' later, tii-; -or.--, ant took him to the _a.o[ 1,. .;. -..-,1,1.1,-d portion ••:' the gaol [ g.ildcn Ar.'ii-s- dug up a pick!.- bottle' manuscript. . A statement by Anthes. in which I he admitted his _uilt, uas tendered in j evidence. !n a liter statement r'.ic do-' fendant a Ik-gel that another man at-! tempud to get into the gaol, having i-x-n promise*] -L •'»'.' -'r.oii t.ie royalties if he rescued the -on,--. ; 111 the witness box Anthes sa'.l that! the later statement was tiie correct, one. He denied having stolen tiie! laiider. or having been near the! 2aoi at all The other man. he said.! bad committed the crime to get t.ie sonar* for 'aim. Further evidence showed that Anthes, wlio iiad Ihh':i declared an habitual eriniiiai, -.v.-i released from gaol >.ni May •_!'. aft ,-r serving a sentence or; four year-' iniprisor.mcu-. ' A.s-u.sed wa- convicted and sentenced i to I- months' impri.-. lament with ha.nl j labour. -