THEATRE THEFTS.
LABOURER'S ADMISSIONS. COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Six burglaries in the city and South Dunedin were admitted in the Police Court by Lionel Roland Robert Horn (2f>), labourer. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Tiie police statement showed that he broke into three theatres, securing sums totalling about £>0 from the sweet stalls iit the buildings. He pot access to the Regent Theatre by working himself up to the roof between two walls, 3ft. apart, placing his feet against one and his shoulders against the other. Next day he went off to the Riverton races, losing there all he had stolen, then breaking into an Invercargill shop. On this offence he was remanded to appear at Invercargill.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 12
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