STOLEN JEWELS

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 8

STOLEN JEWELS

MAN AND WOMAN* CHARGED

WITH RECEIVING.

'Allegations that they were concerned in certain transactions with stolen jewellery were made against a man and woman named Arthur Gorham and May Faithful, alias Sidon, who appeared liefore two Justices of the Peace, Messrs. I. Salek and L. N. Chaffey, at the Blagistrate's Court to-day on charges of receiving. The charges against Faithful were: (1) That on 19th January, at Wellington, she received jewellery valued at £41, the property of James King, knowing the same to have been dishonestly obtained, and (2) that on 7th February, 1922, at Christchurch, she received jewellery, valued at £3 12s 6d, the property of Joe Woon, knowing the same to have been dishonestly obtained. Gorham was also called on to answer the second charge, the date in the information being given as 6th February, 1922.

Mr. Andrews, in outlining the police case, said that on 19th November last the house of Mr. J. B. King, of Auckland, was. broken into and a quantity of jewellery was stolen. In January the female accused had pawned a quantity of the, jewellery in Wellington. On 4th February a theft was committed from a Chinaman's house in Wellington South, and the accused were alleged to have received the proceeds of that theft from some person unknown.

The police proceeded to call evidence "on the lines of this statement. At the conclusion of the evidence, the female accused pleaded guilty, and was confnitted to the Supreme Court for sentence. Gorham pleaded not guilty, and was sent to the Supreme Court for trial.