CITY SENSATION

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 74, 20 December 1929, Page 13

CITY SENSATION

ALLEGED BREAKING AND ENTERING

EX-CONSTABLE CHARGED

POLICEMAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED RECEIVING

Something of a sensation was caused in the city yesterday when it became known that Detectives Jarrold and McLennan had arrested a police constable and an ex-constable in connection with charges of breaking and entering. The constable was Hugh Robertson Stevenson, aged 27, of the Taranaki Street station and he was charged before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday morning with receiving from Joseph Maurice White and Wilfred Leonard Ramm clothing to the value of £l2/11/6 knowing the same to have been dishonourably obtained. Ramm, who, up to a week or so ago, was also a member of the police force, attached to the Taranaki Street station, was charged with breaking and entering by night the shop of C. Smith, Ltd., and. stealing three suits of pyjamas, a Stetson hat, two caps, a dressing gown, two singlets, a pair of trousers, a pyjama coat, seven shirts, two pairs of gloves, four collars, a scarf, and nine ties, to the total value of £25. Chief Detective Lopdell, in asking for a week’s remand, said that so far as Stevenson was concerned there was only the one charge against him. “Up to last night,” said the Chief Detective, “he was a respected member of the police force. I ask for heavy bail as the offence under the circumstances 13 naturally a very serious one.” . Concerning Ramm, Chief Detective Lopdell said he was a married man. The charge of breaking and entering preferred against him was one of a series of charges. Mr. Page: You say the other charges pending are also for breaking and ente The Chief Detective: Yes, sir, a seriea of breaking and entering and theft charges. ' , , , The remand was granted and each ot the accused, who were charged separately, were granted bail in the sum of with a similar surety. Mr. R. E. Pope appeared for Stevenson and W. E. Leicester for Ramm.