BURGLAR’S RUSE
SPrfINkLED TACKS ON FLOOR. A man of colour, WO-ldori Collins (56), described as a baker, was sentenced by Judge Gregory at the-,. Old fea'iley recently to heVeh.jyedrs’’ penal servitude on three Charged of burglary and the theft of. property valited at £2OO. He pleaded, guilty, arid ask-1 cd tliat nineteen other cages of a similar character might be taken into account.
Detective-Sergeant Marsh said that in every house Cbllihs broke into-he. woiic .into bedrooms where people wef'e sleeping. In his pocket when arrested, wits found a box of tin tacks. Judge Gregory: What did he want with tin tricks? . Detbhtive Marsh: To sprinkle on the floor in the-event of people waking up. Collins said’ that he had been to sea as a cook, and every tinie he returned from a vbydge lie Was “picked up” by the police for failing to report. .jiidge Gregory observed that Collins’s remedy was to stop out of England. “It would be best for this country and for you. Go to the country Micro you were born,” he added.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1931, Page 3
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176BURGLAR’S RUSE Greymouth Evening Star, 27 February 1931, Page 3
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