BURGLARS’ TOOLS
OLD OFFENDER CAUGHT. [per press association.] WELLINGTON, July 8. When patrolling Oriental Bay about 7.30 p.m. on June 30, detectives stopped and spoke to John Barnard McDonald, alias Frederick McAllister, aged 31, and, as a result, McDonald was charged at the Magistrate’s Court to-day with being found in possession of house-braking instruments (a crowbar, jemmy, jack-knife, and a pair of socks). He pleaded guilty. In reply to the Magistrate, the accused said the instruments were in a brown paper parcel when he was stopped. Ho had been given the parcel by a man, who he did not know, just a few minutes before the detectives crossed the road. After giving him the parcel, the man had gone off, saying something about getting some liquor. The. Magistrate, Mr. Page, said: “If this was a man without a record, the presence of these instruments might not have been so difficult for him; but he has a long list of previous convictions, and I think the only explanation is that he had the instruments for some nefarious purpose.” McDonald was sentenced to tweWe months’ hard labour.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1932, Page 2
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