HOUSE ENTERED.
PAINTER'S ADMISSION
COMMITTED FOR SEXTEXC'E. Pleading guilty to a charge of -breaking aud entering and theft, Malcolm Bernard Jackson, single, a painter. appeared Ix'fore Captain Xutsford and Mr. F. S. Carter, J.P.'s, in the Police Court- yesterday afternoon and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Detective T. Snedden prosecuted and Mr. C. H. Ha me appeared for Jackson.
Tn a. signed statement. made to Detective Snedden. Jackson said that on November 11 after knocking off work he had been driking whisky. He was under the influence of lienor that evening when he got a ladder and entered through the window the house of Victor John Sanders, which was next door to where accused lived. From a. bedroom he took some handkerchiefs, a "pair of opera glasses, an electric razor, and about 7/ in halfpennies. He h»;d sold the glasses and razor to a second-hand dea'ler, and spent the halfpennies, hut did not know what he had done with the handkerchiefs.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 285, 2 December 1938, Page 11
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164HOUSE ENTERED. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 285, 2 December 1938, Page 11
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