MEN BEFORE COURT

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 230, 26 June 1935, Page 9

MEN BEFORE COURT

Receiving of Stolen Jewels Alleged Sydney, June 25. Matthew Walsh, aged 23, and Keith Gill, aged 21, appeared in the city Police Court on a charge of vagrancy. The police prosecutor said that the caretaker of a jewellery firm in Western Australia was murdered and jewellery valued at £4927 stolen. The police had satisfactory proof that Walsh and Gill had been receiving jewellery. The Magistrate granted the police application for a remand. The body of Edgar Whitfield, aged about 60, night caretaker employed by Caris Brothers, jewellers. Hay Street, Perth, was found during the night of February 5 at the rear of the shop with a broken neek, and diamonds valued at £•1000 or £5OOO were missing from the safe. Whitfield was seen the previous night at about 10 o’clock transferring diamonds from the window to the safe in accordance with his usual custom. Later the police received a telephone message from an unknown man saying that he had heard a crash of falling glass within the shop. Their examination revealed Whitfield’s body. There was evidence ot theft, and the police were of the opinion that Whitfield’s neck was broken during a violent struggle with burglars.