ALLEGED BURGLARY

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 10

ALLEGED BURGLARY

CITY SHOP ENTERED

POLICEMAN ARRESTED

Following the discovery of a man in the premises of C. Smith, Ltd., one night recently, some startling developments have taken place, culminating yesterday in the.arrest of a police constable and a man who until a short time ago was a member of the Police Force. Their names were Hugh Eobertson Stevenson, aged 27, and Wilfred Leonard Eamm, aged 29, and both appeared before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court to-day. Stevenson, for whom Mr. E. E. Pope appeared, was charged with receiving from Joseph Maurice White and Wilfred Leonard Eamm clothing to the value of £12 11s 6d, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. In applying for a remand until Monday next, Chief-Detective Lopdell said: "The accused man was until yesterday a respected member of the Police Force. He is now an ex-constable." The remand was granted, bail being allowed in the accused's own bond of £200 and one surety of £200. A similar remand was granted in the case of Eamm, who is charged with breaking and entering the shop of C. Smith, Ltd., and stealing three suits of pyjamas, a hat, two caps, a dressing gown, two singlets, a pair of trousers, a pyjama coat, seven shirts, two pairs of gloves, four collars, a scarf, and nine.ties, of a total value of £20. Chief-Detective Lopdell said that until a week or so ago the accused was a police constable. This was only one of a series of charges in which ihe would be involved. They were all breaking I and entering the accused being associated with a man named White.

Mr. W. E. Leicester appeared for Eamm, who was granted bail in his own bond of £200 and two sureties of £200 each.

The man White, who was found in the premises, was before the Court dii Tuesday last, when he was also remanded to Monday.