CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
CHRISTCHURCH HOUSE THIEF
TRAVELLED AS A TINKER.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, this day.
Henry Patrk* Moore, aged 38, pleade3 guilty in the Police Court to-day to eight charges of breaking and entering various houses early this month, and committing theft.
The police said accused travelled round as a tinker. To gain entrance he broke leadlights over the doors or windows and then released the catch in the door. In all he had taken £100 worth of goods and jewellery from eight houses. He was caught in the act at a Sydenham house.
He was committed for sentence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 5
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