BURGLARIES AT CHRISTCHURCH
TWO MEN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, January 19. Frederick Augustus Armitage' (aged 38), Walter Fraser Sheriff Harneiss (aged 27), ar.d Joseph Hogan Byrne (aged 49), appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to answer a series of charges of burglary. In one case gelignite had been unsuccessfully used on a safe.
Harneiss, in a statement to the police, said that he accompanied Byrne when the latter sold a stolen carpet to a pawnbroker. They then broke into buildings at Houck’s Quarry, and stole some gelignite, which was later used in an attempt to blow up Packer and Jones’ safe. Byrne made a similar statement. In both it was stated that Armitage had nothing to do with any of the breaking and entering charges. Byrne and Harneiss pleaded guilty to all charges and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The burglary charges against Armitage were dismissed, but he was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for being unlawfully on premises, and on a charge of being idle and disorderly he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon 'within two years, a condition being that lie kept 'out of the city.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 98, 20 January 1926, Page 10
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