THEFT OF JEWELLERY

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 113, 9 November 1921, Page 5

THEFT OF JEWELLERY

YOUNG MAN STEALS SISTER-IN-LAW'S PROPERTY.

There were some rather unusual circumstances connected with a case heard in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when a young man named Norman Allen William Beagley was charged, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., with the theft on 28th September of a quantity of jewellery a dress suit, a dress jacket, two table centres, and a revolver, of a total value of £72, the property of Kathleen Agnew Hollis. Chief-Detective Kemp said that it was alleged that the accused, who, with his wife, had been living with his sister-in-law, the complainant, had stolen the various articles during the complainant's absence from home, and had disposed of them to secondhand dealers. Beagley was represented by Mr. T. C. A. Hislop. The complainant, a widow, living at 57, Central-terrace, said that her sister and her sister's husband (the accused) had been living with her for gome months. Witness left home on Bth September last, and went to Wanganui, leaving the accused and hi» wife in the house. On returning to Wellington on 26th October, she found that her boxes had been gdne through, and missed the jewellery and other articles detailed in the charge. Evidence was also given by Simon Nausbaum, Mary Nausbaum, and Sarah Brickman, second-hand dealers, who said that they had purchased various articles from the accused, who had given his correct name, and had stated that he lived in Hataitai. \ Harry Pearson, a billiard marker at the Empire Billiard Saloon, Willis-street, said that about a month ago the accused came into the billiard-room and asked witness to take care of a' revolver. After some hesitation, .witness agreed to take care of the revolver on the understanding that the accused would return the following day. Beagley did not return, however, and the revolver waß handed over to the police. Detective M'Lennau also gave evidence regarding having obtained statements from the accused!* Beagley pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for eantenet. < ■