THEFTS BY NIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 287, 4 December 1930, Page 11

THEFTS BY NIGHT.

SERIES IN WELLINGTON. TWO ACCUSED PLEAD GUILTY MOTOR CAR AND SKELETON KEYS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday.

A ■ series of thefts from premises by night, carried out with the aid of a motor car, skeleton keys and stolen implements, was admitted in the Police Court to-day by two electricians, Robert Meynell Calvert and William Gladstone Tlioms, each aged 21. They were committed for sentence. The charges to which Thorns and- Robert Calvert pleaded guilty were ten of breaking, entering and 'theft, and three of theft of money and goods. . William Francis Calvert, aged 2j. carpenter, denied five charges of breaking, entering and theft, and one charge of receiving goods, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. He was committed for trial. The total value of the money. and goods concerncd was £437 10/6. 3 All three men were remanded to appear at Pahiatua ou Friday on a joint charge of breaking, entering and theft of'money and goods valued at £253 4/4. Detective McLennan gave evidence that on November 18, in company with Detective Jarrold. he arrested Thorns and Robert Calvert at their homes in Petone and William Calvert at his home at Eastbourne; In possession of each accused was found a quantity of goods that had been stolen from different shops. Thorns and Robert Calvert admitted the offences, but William Calvert said in respect of the.charges before the Court that the goods in his possession had been given him by the two other accused. Robert Calvert and Thorns made statements, in which they described different thefts they had committed in Lower Hutt, Petone, Moera a rid Pahiatua.