WAR MEDALS STOLEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 237, 7 October 1930, Page 10

WAR MEDALS STOLEN.

SUSPECT SENT FOB TRIAL

FOLLOWED BY CONSTABLE.

Following a complaint,, a constable went to a house at 114, Union Street, on the night of October 1, and found a man leaving with clothes overplus arm. Tlie constable followed the man and later arrested him. I Yesterday William James Moore, [a butcher, aged 44, appeared -before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., in the Police .Court, charged with breaking and entering the house of William Ellersmere Gibson and stealing war medals and articles valued at £1. Constable C. H. Davis said that accused, when arrested, was carrying over his right arm a woman's overcoat, « child's overcoat and an apron. He was under the influence of liquor. 'At the Freeman's Bay police station I accused had said the property belongs to Mrs. A, Lilly, of N'opier Street, t»j he had gone to'a house in Union Street to see a Mrs. Ballnniyne. Witness examined the house from which he s a » accused come. Burned wooden matcp were found on the floor hi nearly every room. When charged accused said , ' 1 ? had not been in the house. He <W S pretty drunk. . , i Accused pleaded nut guilty, reserve his defence and was committed to t" Supreme- Court for trial. Bail was refused. ,