A LENGTHY LIST

Evening Star, Issue 18715, 18 August 1924, Page 8

A LENGTHY LIST

CHARGES AGAINST TWO YOUTHS

ALLEGED BREAKING INTO SCHOOL,

The young men, George Edward Ferguson (18) and Henry Frederick Hornby (19), whoso depredations in Dunedin and its suburbs have taken the form of breaking and entering and minor thefts, were before tho court this morning to jointly answer eight charges of this nature. In addition Ferguson was separately charged with three thefts, small amounts being involved.

Ethel Hilliker, teacher at Kensington School, said she left the school at about 3 o’clock on July 10, leaving a bottle containing about 2s 6d in coppers. The money was missing next morning. Frederick Adolphus Harper, janitor at tlio school, gave evidence that ho had returned to the school early in the morning of July 11. to find that things wore not as they had been. Walter James Bondman, teacher at the Forbury School, said ho had left the cupboard in his class room locked on July 11. There was about £2 10s in the cupboard. On returning on the 14th bn found the money gone.. George Thomas Ilnmon, caretaker at the Forbury School, testified that ho had left the school locked on the night of the 11th. Ho found on the Saturday that drawers had been pulled out, windows opened, and a number of dead matches strewn about the floor. There were no catches on many of the windows. Janet Lucy Crawley, teacher at Macandrew Hoad School, stated that she left the school on July 18 at about .a. 45. There was a box in' the infant room containing money for tho Barnardo Home. The box was three-parts full of money. She told of vanished money and disarranged conditions that ruled in the room when she returned on the following Monday morning. John Edward Galbraith, Dunedin representative of the Shaw-Savill Shipping Company, said his company had an cilice at the corner of Mason street and Coates crescent. It was used only when any of the company’s ships were in port at Dunedin. Witness was at the office on July 50, and left at about 2 p.m., leaving the place leaked. On August 2 y at tho request of tho police, ho examined tho office and found that the front door had been forced, and also a private roller-top desk. Tho medal produced was in the desk, as was also tho souvenir modal. Witness thought there was a bottle of nun there, too. It was however, such a long time since ho had'seen tho desk open that ho could not speak with certainty as to what the contents were. Tho caso is proceeding this afternoon.