SMASH-AND-GRAB RAID

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 87, 6 January 1940, Page 9

SMASH-AND-GRAB RAID

Two Soldiers Convicted

A smash-and-grab raid by two soldiers ou the jewellery shop tof James Barr Lauchlan Ltd., Willis Street, was described in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, when two soldiers appeared before Mr. Stout. S.M. One was charged with committing mischief by wilfully damaging a plaleglass display window valued at £2O, and with tlie theft of a hairbrush worth 8/(1. The other was charged with stealing two hairbrushes and a leather case, two brooches, a fountain pen, three strings of pearls, a pencil and knife, two spoons, and two benzine cigarette lighters, of a total value of £6/6/-. Both men pleaded g ui Ky- „. r ■ I Detective-Sergeant M. McLennan said that defendants had been arrested immediately following the smashing of Hie window. They were members of tlie first echelon. .......... The magistrate convicted and discharged defendants. A guarantee was given that tlie £2O damage would be paid. James Leon Lewis, a jockey ami labourer, aged 2-1, who was charged with stealing a cigarette lighter worth 19/6 belonging to J. B. Lauchlan, was remanded till Wednesday. Mr. McLennan stated that Lewis had been arrested with the other defendants.