SERIES OF BURGLARIES.
TWO YCTONQ MEN GAOLED.
(Br Telegnvb—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday, four charges of lawiikiiig w*d enterfag and theft weje admitted Charles Comey and Robert CJyctl floutn- , wood, both aged 28, in the Police to-day. They also pleaded guilty to the f eemversion of a motor car and • motor i tjrcle. i-'. ilt was alleged In evidence that ou Kovcmber 24 accused broke into two louses, taking goods and money, valued at £8 4/, from one, and goods, including revolvers, valued at £16 3/6, from, the * ether. , Three days later they took a motor «ar and broke into a shop at Mornington. TKey abandoned the ear and, the ,i following day broke into a house and stole two revolvers. Thence they wem to tho Winter Chow Grounds ana tooK • motor cycle, on whlfeb . Giiborne, where they committed further robberies, for which they were arrested^ St Opotiki. T~'~\ :. i Accnscd were sentenced to. tnree months' imprisonment,- and- were ;eom- ; mltted to the Supreme Court |n .respect to the major charge*.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 20, 24 January 1929, Page 23
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