TANEATUA BURGLARY.
TWO MEN PLEAD GUILTY. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WHAKATANE, Friday. A plea of guilty to a charge of entering the Public Works office at Taneatua on November 3 and attempting to blow open a safe containing £2700 was entered by Charles Barclay Dewar in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Accused also pleaded guilty to entering the Whakatane branch of the Farmers' Trading Company and blowing open a safe and stealing therefrom £103. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
Charles Barclay Dewar and James William Sliaw were also charged with breaking into Franklin's drapery premises and attempting to hlow open the safe, and with entering Price's grocery store and blowing open a safe and stealin cheques and cash to a value of £252, as well as cigarettes and other goods from the shop. Both pleaded guilty and were committed for sentence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 14
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