CRIME AT DUNEDIN

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 12

CRIME AT DUNEDIN

VARIOUS OFFENCES

MEN BEFORE COURT

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

DUNEDIN, This Day.

Arthur Gavan, a yoiing man, was today committed to the Supreme Court on a charge of breaking and entering a warehouse and stealing tobaccjj and cigarettes valued at £115.

* The' accused, in a statement, said he hired a car in Christchurch and left for Dunedin with two companions, whose names he did not wish to mention. Two days later he met his companions at night outside a warehouse and loaded four sacks. He arranged that he should see his companions at Christchurch, where he agreed to drop the sacks with a tobacconist, whom he did not wish to mention. He left for the North the same night, and was arrested at Timaru.

Counsel said that the accused did not enter the' premises, but merely assisted from without.

John M'Cullough Forsyth, charged with obtaining £20 by falsely stating that he was in a position to' employ as a motor driver any person prepared to pay £20, was sentenced to one year's reformative detention. He was remanded to" Christchurch on ,-uiothcr charge. Robert William. Paull, a Post Office messenger, charged with stealing a letter containing bank' notes and a postal, note of a total value of £2 12s, the property of tho Postmaster-General, was committed to the. Supreme Cour tfor sentence.