LIQUOR THEFT ADMITTED
Three Accused For Sentence
(New Zealand Preet Association) WELLINGTON, April 5. Three men who admitted breaking and entering the premises of E. O’Reilly, Ltd., wine and spirit merchants, Thomdon quay, Wellington, on March 26, were convicted and remanded to Friday for sentence by Mr W. S. Carson, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, today. They were Reitu Raymond Heke, aged 18, cook, Robert Thomas Paul, aged 34, labourer, and Hone Dermott O'Carroll, aged 26, workman. All pleaded guilty. The premises had been broken into by smashing a hole in a wooden door with a steel bar, the prosecutor (Mr M. Brown) said. Beer, whisky and sherry worth £l6O 4s 5d had been stolen. Of this, liquor worth £4O 0s 7d had been recovered, from the garden of a house in Newlands, and from a house in Petone where O'Carrol was found hiding in a wardrobe. Paul had admitted that he was “lookout” for the raid and Heke had described helping to load the stolen liquor into Paul's car, said Mr Brown. An order was made for the return of the recovered property.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29173, 6 April 1960, Page 24
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