BREAKING AND ENTERING
Admitting a joint charge of breaking and entering the warehouse of Winstone's, Ltd., Ghuznee Street, with intent to commit a crime, on May 26, Gordon Thomas Wilkie, a motor mechanic, aged 40, and Charles Raoul Francis Gawn, a labourer, aged 21, who appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout. S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today, were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Police witnesses described how several drawers in the showroom had been opened, and a desk i rawer had been forced open, but nothing taken. Wilkie was found in the yard a the back of the Foresters' Arms Hotel, and was wearing gloves. Gawn was found in a box in the yard of Winstone's, and was also wearing gloves. Near the box were two tyre levers, and Gawn admitted that these were his property, and that he had used them to break into the premises. Both appeared to have had liquor.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 13
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