THEFT OF JEWELLERY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1926, Page 10

THEFT OF JEWELLERY

CLERK COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE.

On a charge of breaking and entering by day the house of Charlton Morpeth, 248, Wellington terrace, and stealing a gold watch and two rings of a total value of £100, the property of Oenone Margaret Greig, Konald Cozalct Bloxham, a clerk, aged 21, appeared in the Magistrate 's Court to-day. Detective M'Lennan gave evidence that as the result of a complaint from Mrs. Greig, he accompanied Detective Jarrold to the 'house, and found footprints in tiie dining-coom and the marks of rubber shoes on the fire escape. After further inquir 'a, he interviewed the accused, who mad a statement admitting that ho entered the house through an open window, in the dining-room and took the jewellery from the mantelpiece. Witness later visited a house in Miramar, where one ring and the watch were recovered. The accused had stated that he had given the other ring to a girl 'th whom he had been keeping company, but she did not know that he had stolen it. This ring had also been recovered. The accused, who was represented by Mr. P. H. Putnam, pleaded guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail in the sum of £.100 was reifewed. - Bloxham also admitted stealing £2 from Percival Myers. Chief-Detective Ward said that Myers occupied a flat on the floor below that on which Bloxham lived, and the latter had stolon the money during Myers' absence. On this charge, the accused was remanded for sentence to Friday morning, pending a report from the. Probation Officer.