HOUSES ENTERED

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 113, 6 February 1941, Page 8

HOUSES ENTERED

Young Man For Sentence By Supreme Court

Pleading guilty to four charges of breaking and entering and theft from dwellinghouses i» Wellington, Donald James Jones, labourer and seaman, aged 23, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence when he appeared yesterday before Mr. Stout. S.M.. in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington. Accused was not represented by counsel. Statements made by accused were produced by Detective W. Sleeth. In these, accused admitted breaking and entering by night the house ol M. Parker, Colombo Street, and breaking and entering by day the houses of William Bullock, The Terrace, Eric William Hawley-Drew, Barnard Street, and it house in Pirie Street occupied by James Cumming, and committing I hefts from every one of the premises. The occupiers of the houses gave evidence about the articles stolen. Jones also pleaded guilty to being deemed to be an incorrigible rogue in that lie escaped from a place of legal confinement before the expiration of his term, to a charge of attempted unlawful conversion of a car at Eastbourne, a charge of unlawful conversion of a car at York Bay, theft of a camera and wilfully damaging a motor-car ignition switch and padlock. On these minor charges he was stood down for sentence till after the Supreme Court has dealt with the breaking and entering charges. Detective-Sergeant IV. McLennan prosecuted