GANG OF THIEVES
SYSTEMATIC OPERATIONS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. ' "This crowd set out on a systematic thieving expedition extending over a •fairly considerable period," said ChiefDetective Dunlop at the Magistrate's 'Court this morning when throe men 'find two women faced a series of theft '.charges. The accused were William Ambrose Ford, aged 26, William Sid.'ney Terris, aged 26, William John Gwatkin, aged 30, his wife Eileen May . Gwatkin, and Eunice Beryl Grealbatch, ,'a'- married woman aged 22. Ford was sentenced to 12 months' .■hard labour and Terris to six months. ..(jrreatbatch was remanded pending the ' probation officer's report. Gwatkin ~.was sentenced to three months' hard , labour and his wife was ordered to _,c,ome up for sentence within six imonths if called upon. The others .-.were convicted and discharged. ~!, All the accused pleaded guilty. The thefts all related to carpenters' tools ; taken from jobs and crockery taken -;from houses. •_■::<. Counsel said that Mrs. Gwatkin was .27 years of age, and had been married » for nine years and had eight children, .the last of which was born five weeks Ago.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1936, Page 11
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180GANG OF THIEVES Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 96, 20 October 1936, Page 11
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