"WOULD USE SANDBAG."

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 256, 29 October 1929, Page 9

"WOULD USE SANDBAG."

YOUNG BURGLAR'S ADMISSION

TWO YOUTHS PLEAD GUILTY.

SERIES OF OFFENCES,

(By Telegraph.—Preps Association.)

CHRISTC'HURCH, this day.

James Linland Anderson, aged IS, a butcher, and Maurice Hamilton Gregory, 17, a labourer, pleaded guilty to-day to six charges of breaking, entering and theft. They were committed for sentence and their bail was fixed at £1000 each. The police said that when arrested accused had torches, sandbags,_ a tyre lever and a loaded revolver in their possession, also a muslin mask. Anderson had. said that if cornered he would not have used the revolver, but he would have used the sandbag. . Witnesses said that their houses had been entered while parties were in progress and jewellery and guests' money had been stolen. A constable who searched the accused at St. Alban's police station, said a slip of black muslin was around Gregory's neck, and it had evidently been used as a mask. On the following day he made a search of premises where the arrest was made, and he found the larger of the sandbags at the spot where he had caught Anderson. Anderson later admitted that the sandbag had been in his possession.

Acting Detective Halcrow read a number of statements made by accused, in which thev admitted offences.