STOLEN SAFE

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 129, 28 November 1945, Page 8

STOLEN SAFE

£585 IN NOTES

MAN FOR SENTENCE

Evidence that a safe containing £585 in notes and sundry papers was stolen from a bedroom of his house at 7 Morley Street, Karori, was given by George Edward Byron' Wood, carrier, in the Magistrate's Court today when Ernest Clarence Williams, labourer and cook, 32. appeared on a charge of breaking and entering Wood's premises on the night of September 22. He placed the total value of the safe and contents at £626 4s. Evidence was also given that the safe badly damaged, was recovered among rocks at Lyall Bay. In a statement "which the accused made to the police at Hamilton, and produced in Court by Detective G. C. Urquhart. he stated that he went with two other men to the complainant's home, on September 22. The accused kept watch while the other men broke into the house. The safe was taken by car to Lvall Bay and blown open. After the m'onev was counted the accused received £160 as his share. In his statement, the accused said that he had not seen the two o.ther men since and he did not know what had happened to the papers. He had spent his share mainly in drinking and gambling. The accused pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence by Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M.