STOLEN GOODS FOUND
YOUTHS PLEAD GUILTY
Directed by the two accused after they had been located at Eastbourne, Detectives P. C. Smsaton and G. K. Callaghan found hidden in bushes a quantity of confectionery, fruit, and other goods stolen from the shop of Mr.' C. A. Holland, Main Road, Karori; on March 19, according to evidence given in the Magistrate's Court today, when Robert Toombs, a tile stripper, aged 19, and Robert Clarence Clarke, alias Herbert Oswald Jewett, a motorassembler, aged 21, appeared before Mr. J..L. Stout, S.M., and pleaded guilty to joint charges of breaking and entering Mr. Holland's shop and committing theft. They also admitted breaking and entering, on March 19,. the office of the Glen Service Station, and| committing theft; unlawfully converting, at Hamilton, on March 1, a car valued at £319, and another car, valued at £427, at Wellington, on March 13. On these charges they, were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 91, 19 April 1939, Page 17
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158STOLEN GOODS FOUND Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 91, 19 April 1939, Page 17
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