MONEY STOLEN
MEN FOR SENTENCE
Charged with breaking and entering the premises of the Wellington Dairy Farmers' Co-op. Association, Street, Lower Hutt, on the night of September 16. and stealing £61 ;6s in cash, Oliver William Southhorn, single, 18, a driver employed by the firm, living at Moera, and Philip Leonard Naylor, .married, . 21, also of Moera, jpleaded ■guilty before 'Messrs. H. G. Hume and W. A. Fisher, J.P.s, at Lower Hutt today, and were committed to the Supreme Court at, Wellington for sentence. ' ; • , , ' ..' In statements produced by DetectiveSergeant H. C. Murch, who prosecuted, Southhorn: said he "committed the theft to get money to buy a motor-car, and Naylor said he wanted the money to shift his family to Stratford. With the exception of 2s Bd, the whole oT the money had been recovered. Another, charge, of .entering, a billiard saloon at Moera and stealing 5s and a clock was preferred against both the accused, and adjourned until September. 30. _____________
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 70, 20 September 1943, Page 6
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160MONEY STOLEN Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 70, 20 September 1943, Page 6
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