STOLEN GOODS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 29, 28 October 1932, Page 15

STOLEN GOODS

No Receivers, Fewer Thieves

“Jt has been truly said that if there were no receivers there would be fewer thieves, ’’ said’ Mr. Justice-MacGregor, in summing up the evidence in a trial In the-Supreme Court yesterday. The difficulty thieves had' to meet in such a small country as New Zealand, said his Honour, especially with jewellery, Was. the disposal of stolen goods. There would not be so many robberies in the country if there were no people ready to buy the goods.-

Mr. P. S. K. Macassey, when prosecuting in another case in which a considerable amount of jewellery was concerned, in addressing the jury referred to the number of bousebreakinfc and shopbreaking cases, not only in Wellingioti, but in various parts of the country. He reminded the jury of "the grand jury’s'commendation of the 'services the police were, giving. It Wag; tile duty of the- jury' to protect the public, ■: although lie did not :<sk the jury’ to convict the men concerned in this particular case, unless satisfied as to their guilt.