PLEADED GUILTY.
BREAKING AND ENTERING.
COMMITTED FOR SEXTEXGE.
Charged with breaking and entering the warehouse of Clark Bro«., Freeman's Bay, and stealing £.1 0/0 in money and goods valued at £0 1/, aW with breaking and entering the premises of the British United Shoe Company, Freenian'n Ray, with intent to commit a crime, DArcy Mansell Bennett, labourer, and Patrick Edwin Grove, seaman, appeared in the Police Court to-day. Bennett was also charged with the theft of an overcoat and fJrove with receiving the coat knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. Detective-Sergeant Xalder prosecuted, the accused l>eing undefended.
Detpctivp-Sergeant .7. Hunt produced signed statements made to liim in which the accused admitted the breaking: and entering charge*. In the room necti|ii«Ml by the rptumml in Xel#on Street wa« foiiiKl a quantity of gelignite and some detonators.
('(met si hie Brown produced statements ma<le by tlie accused in which Bennett admitted stealing the overcoat from a motor car and Grove admitted selling it for fl/.
The accused pleaded guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 11
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177PLEADED GUILTY. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 11
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