A POLICE RAID

Evening Star, Issue 19388, 23 October 1926, Page 21

A POLICE RAID

SEQUEL tO BURGLARIES A BIG HAUL. [PfER United Press Association.] NEW PLYMOUTH, October 22. Tbo sensational burglaries of country stores which had been disturbing Taranaki for some months past, and which wore cleared up, the police believe, when a raid was made on a farm nearOpunake recently, where the police secured a big haul of loot, were further ventilated at Opunake, when the four men concerned were brought before the court. In all there was a total of twenty-eight charges, twenty-two being directly connected with the burglary, whilst six concerned breaches of the Arms Act. Ambrose Folwer and Albert Graham were each committed for trial at the next sessions of the Supreme Court at New Plymouth of nine separate charges of breaking and entering. William Folwer and Albert Folwer were committed for trial on charges of receiving stolen goods, whilst further charges against the same two accused of receiving stolen goods were postponed. Ambrose Folwer admitted possession of an unregistered pea rifle, sentence being deferred. Alfred Graham admitted possession of an unregistered five-chamber revolver, which, he said, ho carried for bluff, and in this case sentence was also deferred. Charles Robertson, of Midhirst, was fined £1 in connection with the delivery of the revolver.