THEFT OF UNIFORMS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 97, 20 January 1944, Page 3

THEFT OF UNIFORMS

Dry Cleaners’ Premises Broken Into A charge of breaking into the -premises of Taylor 'Brothers IDtd., dyers and cleaners, Mansfield iStreet, ’ Wellington South, and stealing from them was admitted iu the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday by Edwin James Jarvis, boot repairer, aged 3-1, and he was committed’ by Mr. iStout, S.M., to the Supreme Court for sentence. Colin David Jarvis, seaman, aged IS), charged jointly with the other accused, pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial. The offence was alleged to have been committed on October 15. A member of the firm stated that £7O worth of uniforms that were being cleaned were missing after the works had been entered.

Detective-Sergeant “N. W. Baylis, Auckland, said that on. October 5, in company with other detectives, he arrested accused at a garage ,in Parnell. They were in possession of,, a stolen motor-car and were accompanied by. two American servicemen. They were taken to the Auckland detective office, and he interviewed them in regard to a number of offences. They informed him that while in Wellington on October 3 they went to Taylor Brothers’ premises, and while the two Americans remained in the car they broke into the premises and stole a quantity 1 of clothing. They then took the two Americans in the car to Eastbourne, where they spent the remainder of the night. Witness found in the car a number of uniforms, which accused said Were tlie proceeds o.f the breaking and entering. Colin David Jarvis was charged also with stealing two dozen bottles of ale and four gallons of turpentine, the property of Richard Emmett Heley, painter, of a total value of £2/11/-. The owner of the -property said he left it in his car while the car was parked in Boulcott Street on August 20. Ten or 15 minutes later it had disappeared! A priest said that from a window of the presbytery in Boulcott Street he saw two men acting suspiciously with objects in Heley’s .car, which he knew. He. took the number of a vehicle the men had with them. He sought Heley in the church and, finding him. told him of what he had seen. Later he identified accused at an identification parade. Accused was- convicted and remanded for sentence.