TALKED IN CELLS.
TWO PRISONERS OVERHEARD,
JEWELLERY WORTH £317 STOLEN
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
PALMERSTON N., Friday.
In the Supreme Court to-day Edwin George Valentine Roberts, aged 23, labourer, and Raymond Patrick Lotion, aged 20, labourer, were found guilty of breaking and entering the premises of Lauclilan and Company, Ltd., jewellers, Courtenav Place, Wellington, abotot midnight on Sunday, June 26, and stealing jewellery to the value of £317 19/6. Letton, who had previous convictions, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and declared an habitual criminal. Roberts "was sentenced to 18 months' reformative detention.
Two boxes of jewellery were found in a yard near a lorry, which had been abandoned when a nightwatchman disturbed the burglars. Accused were taken into custody at New Plymouth. Tho principal evidence at the trial was a conversation between the prisoners in the cells overheard by a constable.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 7
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