BREAKING AND ENTERING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 143, 16 December 1908, Page 8

BREAKING AND ENTERING.

ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. A youth, named Herbert Stanley Hill, was charged before Mr. Riddell, S.M., this morning, with breaking and entering on. the 10th December into the dwellinghouse of Walter Joseph TJaskiville with intent to commit a crime. Walter Baskiville, police sergeant, stationed at Mount Cook, stated that on the 10th December last ho returned home about 10.30 p.m. He was let in by his son Henry, who told him there was somebody in the scullery. The witness went into the scullery, struck a match, and saw the accused sitting in tho sink underneath the window. One leg was trapped by the sash. He was snoring loudly, pretending to be asleep. The witness took accused — who feigned drunkenness^ — down to the Police Station. Witness had! never seen the accused before. Walter John Baskiville and Henry Baskiville, sons of the first witness, gave evidence. The latter said he found the back gate locked on returning home on the 10th inst. at 10.30 p.m. There was a ladder against the gate when the witness climbed over. He heard a scuffle in the scullery, and found the accused there. The accused pleaded guilty, and was committed to tho Supreme Court for sentence.