GUILT ADMITTED.
BREAKING AND ENTERING. YOUNG MEN FOR SENTENCE. ———• * (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WHANG ARE I, this day. Fourteen charges, four of an indictable nature, involving breaking and entering and theft, were heard before Messrs. G. H. Morrish and A. H. Curtis, justices of the peace, at the Whangarei Police Court to-day. James Maitland Webb, aged 20, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the shop of A. Beavage, Limited, Whangarei, the shop of Francis Jaque*., Kaiwaka, and the house of E. Maud Morgan, Whangarei, and committing theft in each instance. Ernest Albert Mills, aged 25, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the shop of A. Beavage, Limited. Both accusad were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. On the application of Mr. E. A. Harrison, who appeared for Webb and Mills, each was granted bail in self £50 and one surety of £100. This course was not objected to by the police,"who said that both men had been frank in assisting to clean-up the investigations. Charged with stealing at Auckland a car valued at £300, the property of Kathleen Lillian Bull, Webb was remanded to appear at Auckland on January 22.
Other summary charges were ad journed by the Court.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 10
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