THEFTS ALLEGED

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21275, 21 September 1934, Page 6

THEFTS ALLEGED

TWO LABOURERS CHARGED '.PRESS ASSOCIATION TBMG*AVU WELLINGTON, September 20. Though it had been stated by the police that about 50 charges would be preferred against two men, only 10 were made when they appeared today, but the evidence given was long enough to last all day. Accused were labourers, Arthur Cudby, aged 36, and Mervyn John Cudby, aged 32, and the charges were all connected with thefts from dwellings at Lyell Bay and other places about Wellington. Twenty-one civilians and seven police officers are witnesses, and there are many exhibits. Detective Waterson said that Mervyn Cudby, when shown a list of houses broken into, denied he had anything, to do with breaking into any of the houses. He said he would plead guilty to being in possession of housebreaking instruments, but would deny breaking into any houses. Questioned regarding a large sum of money possessed by him and his wife, and how he got the money seeing he had not been working for a considerable time, he said he won it by backing racehorses, backing with two bookmakers. He admitted he had not been working for 12 months. Detective Waterson said he found at Sterling's house a heel mark which corresponded with the rubber heel of a boot found at Mervyn Cudby's house. The case was adjourned till October