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SMASH-AND-GRAB RAIDER SMART ARREST (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 17. " I put my fist through. I was taken for a ride to-night, and was hard up," Thomas Henry Smith (26), a ship's steward, told the police when charged at the Police Station on the morning of April 11 with having broken the window of a jeweller's shop in Willis street and committing theft. Evidence to this effect was given in the Magistrate's Court to-day, when Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking, entering, and theft. A police sergeant said that within a few minutes after the telephone message advising that the window had been broken he found the accused in Lambton Quay, with blood on his hands. A search revealed 51 rings andl three ring stands in his possession, and eight more rings were found near the jeweller's shop. An hotel proprietor said ho heard a crash of glass, and then saw a man put his hand through a hole in the window. Witness then informed the police. The accused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Evening Star, Issue 25770, 17 April 1946, Page 6
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