THIEVES ON WHEELS.
SEVERAL ROBBERIES ADMITTED.
COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Four charges of breaking and entering and theft were admitted by Francis Charles Comey (28), and Robert Cyril Southwood (28); they also pleaded guilty to the conversion of a motor car and motor cycle.
Evidence showed that on November 24 they broke into two houses, takinjr goods and money of the total value of £8 4/ from one, and goods, including a revolver of the' total value of £16 3/6 from the other: Three days later they took a motor car and broke into a shop at Mornington. They abandoned the car, and on the following day broke into a house and stole two revolvers. Thence they went to the winter show grounds and "converted" a motor cy6le, on which they went to Gisborne, where they committed further robberies, for which they were arrested at Opotiki. The accused were given three months' imprisonment (concurrent) on each of the conversion charges, and sent up to the Supreme Court in respect of the major charges.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 20, 24 January 1929, Page 17
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