TARANAKI BURGLARIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 252, 23 October 1926, Page 11

TARANAKI BURGLARIES.

FOUR MEN CHARGED. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, thia day. The sensational burglaries of country stores which had been disturbing Taranaki for some months past, and which were cleared up, the police believe, when a raid was made on a farm near Opunake recently, where the police secured a big haul of loot, wore further ventilated at Opunake when four men were brought before the Court. In all, there was a total of 2S charges, "22 being directly connected with the 'burglaries, whilst the other six concerned breaches of *he Arms v (ft. Ambrose Folwer and Albert Graham were each committed for trial at the next sessions of the Supreme Court at Xew Plymouth on nine separate charges of breaking and entering. William Folwer and Albert Folwer were committed for trial on charges of receiving stolen goods, whilst further charges against tlie same two accused of receiving stolen goods, the subject of summary charges, were also postponed. Ambrose Folwer admitted possession of an unregistered pea rifle, sentence being deferred. Alfred Graham, admitted possession of an unregistered five-chambered revolver, which he said he carried for "bluff." Sentence in this case was also deferred.

Charles Robertson, of Mulhurst, \ra« fined £1 in connection with the delivery of the revolver.