HOUSE BROKEN INTO

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 25, 29 July 1926, Page 17

HOUSE BROKEN INTO

YOUTHS COMMITTED FOE SENTENCE.

Two charges of breaking and entering by day the house of Percy Peter Helmling at 14, St. John street, were made against two youths, Stephen Percival Matterson, aged 20, and Edwin Henry Faulkner, aged 19, in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. The charges involved' the theft of jewellery, money, and goods to the value of £11 8s 2d. Percy Peter Helmling said he left his house on 9th July, one of the windows being left open on the catch about three-quarters of an inch. On returning in the evening he found that the house had been ransacked, and that there were marks on the inside and outside of one of the walls as if someone had made an entry. He found that £3 had been taken from a drawer in a duchesse.. On 23rd July witness left his house about 7 p.m. and returned about 11 p.m. He found that the bathroom window had been wrenched open and that every room had been ransacked. On that occasion goods to the value of £8 2s had been taken. The accused pleaded guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence, bail being renewed in the sum of £150 and one surety of a similar amount in each case.