GOODS FROM ROBBED STORE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 9, 10 July 1942, Page 2

GOODS FROM ROBBED STORE

An aftermath to the breaking and entering of a Kelburn grocery store, for which three youths have been sentenced, was the appearance in the Magistrate's Court on Wednesday of David Ross, a City Corporation employee, aged 61, on a charge of receiving tobacco, cigarettes, and biscuits, of a total value of £16 18s ld, knowing them to have been stolen. He pleaded guilty and was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months. Tlie police said that when a search showed tfie goods hidden in a lavatory, under the stairs, and beneath some floorboards in the accused's house he denied all knowledge of them, but his fingerprints were found on some -of the packages beneath the floorboards. Mr. W. P. Rollings, for the accused, said it was Ross's first appearance in court. One of the youths had been boarding with him and had hidden the goods in various parts of the'house without Ross knowing. It was not an ordinary case of receiving, and Ross knew about the goods only to the extent that he was'present when some cigarettes were^ taken out and he handed them round to visitors. He had made no profit, and did not smoke. He had actually been robbed by the youth, who had stolen a tool and used it for his crimes.