BREAKING AND ENTERING.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19667, 10 July 1929, Page 7

BREAKING AND ENTERING.

TWO YOUNG MEN CHARGBD

COMMITTED FOB SENTENCE

Two Young men, Arthur Richard Bailes, butcher, aged 21, and George Edwards, fitter, aged 21, both of Okaihau, Bay of Islands, pleaded guilty before Mr E. 0. Lewey, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, to several charges of breaking and entering and theft, and attempted breaking and entering, and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The charges were : On June 26th at Lyttelton breaking and entering the shop of Alfred Henry Webb and committing the crime ot theft therein. . , , On June 23rd, at Christchurch breaking and entering the shop of Hurst and Drake and committing the crime of theft therein. On June 26th, at Lyttelton, attempting to break and enter the shop of Harold Walter Blackler with intent to commit a crime. On June 26th at Lyttelton, attempting to break and enter the shop of Morris Scott with intent to commit a crime. Alfred Heurv Webb, a grocer m London street, "Lyttelton, said that he locked up at 5.35 p.m. on June 26th, leaving everything secure. He was in the shop again about 8 o'clock and everything was then all right. About ten o'clock he went to the shop again and found the police there. The back door had been broken open and the till had been emptied of its contents except for a few coppers. A torch that he had left on the counter w;as missing and a fountain pen, and fifty packets of cigarettes had gone. He had lost from £7 to £8 in silver. Lyttelton Lloyd Scott, employed in his brother's mercery establishment, Eaid that at 9 o'clock on the 26th he entered the shop and saw two young men standing by the door. Later, in j consequence of something he had j heard, he went back and found that; | the door had been prised open. Entrance to the shop had not been made. Harold Walter Blackler, a butcher in London street, described the con- | dition in which he had found his I premises the morning following the I 26th. The shop had been broken into, I entrance having been effected through a window. The bolts on the inside of the back door had been drawn back and the door was open. A window had been broken and the latch wrenched off. while there we're marks on two other doors. As far as he could tell there was nothing inissing. He had not left any money in the shop. Constable J. McClurg said that he had interviewed the accused and asked them what they had in their possession. They produced £3 in small silver, a fountain pen, and three left luggage tickets. With the permission of the two accused he secured the luggage—three suitcases—from the left luggage office and took it to the Detective OJfiee. Witness then read a signed statement by the two accused admitting the offences. Herbert Clarence Hurst, a member of the firm of Hurst and Drake, Ferry road, Christchurch, said that he had found that bis premises had been entered during the week-end and one window forced open. Two bottles of spirits and one fountain pen were missing. Constable McClurg read a signed statement by the two accused, admitting the offence. } Mr A. B. Hobbs (for the accused) said that there were further charges pending at Hamilton, and he asked I that they be released oft bail under Section 16 of the First Offenders Act, I on their own recognisance. Mr Lewey: I wouldn't dream of I ft. j Mr Hobbs said that at present they j were with men who would do them I no good. v The Magistrate: They are not sept with old offenders, are they f \ Chief-Detective Carroll: No, sir.