SAFE STOLEN FROM HOUSE
ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE < P -A : ) WELLINGTON, Nov. 28. Evidence that a safe containing £585 in notes and sundry papers was stolen from a bedroom of his house at Karon, was given by George Edward Byron Wood, in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when Ernest Clarence Williams, a labourer and cook, aged 32, appeared on a charge of breaking and entering Wood's premises on the night of September 22. Wood placed the total value of the safe and contents at £626 4s. Evidence was also given that the safe, badty damaged, was recovered from the rocks at Lyall Bay.
In a statement which accused made to the police at Hamilton, which was produced " in Court, he said that he went with two other men to the complainant's home on September 22. Accused kept watch while the other men broke into the house. The safe was taken in a car to Lyall Bay, and blown open. After the money was counted accused received £l6O as his share. In , his statement accused said he had not seen the other two men since, and did not know what had happened to the papers. He had spent his share mainly in drinking and gambling. The accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M. '
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24736, 29 November 1945, Page 3
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