LEFT COAT BEHIND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 4, 6 January 1933, Page 3

LEFT COAT BEHIND.

BURGLAR, TELLS POLICE. Walking into the watchhouse at the Wellington police station at 1.45 a.m. on December 24, Paul Clegg Hughes, alias Thomas Harlow, labourer, aged 32, informed the constable on duty that he had broken into the warehouse of Schneidenian's, Ltd., in Cable Street, and had stolen tht. coat and vest he was wearing. He then added that, having been disturbed by the nightwatehman, he had left his own coat in the building, and, realising that he would be found out, had thought it better to give himself up to the police. Hughes appeared in the Police Court on Wednesday, and pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering by night the warehouse of Schneideman's, Ltd., and stealing a suit valued at £3. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Constable Rush said"that in response to a telephone message from the nightwatchman he had searched the warehouse, and found that a window in the first floor had been broken. H°. a I SO found a new pair of blue trousers, and later saw an old coat that the bightwatchman had found. In this coat were a number of papers bearing the name of Thomas Harlow.