HOUSES ENTERED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1941, Page 9

HOUSES ENTERED

MAN ADMITS CRIMES

SENT FOR SENTENCE

Entry of dwelling-houses and thefts from the premises were admitted by Donald James Jones, a labourer and seaman, aged 23, who appeared before Mr. J. L., Stout, S.M., irt the Magistrate's Court today. After evidence had been heard, and Jones, who gave written confessions to the police, had pleaded guilty, he was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on four charges of breaking and entering and theft. He admitted breaking and entering by night the house of W. Parker, Colombo Street, and breaking and entering by day the houses of William Bullock, The Terrace, Eric William Hawley-Drew, Barnard Street, and a house occupied by James Cumming in Pirie Street, and committing thefts from each of the premises.

Evidence as to the articles taken from each of the houses was given by the occupiers, and Detective W. Sleeth produced statements in which Jones admitted the offences.

Jones also pleaded guilty to being deemed to be an incorrigible rogue in that he escaped from a place of legal confinement before the expiration of his term, to a charge of attempted unlawful conversion of a car at Eastbourne, a charge of unlawful conversion of a car at York Bay, theft of a camera, and wilfully damaging a motor-car ignition switch and padlock. On these minor charges he was stood down for sentence until after the Supreme Court has dealt with the breaking and entering changes.

Detective-Sergeant W. McLennan prosecuted. Jones was not represented by counsel.