Pleading guilty to the theft of cake, biscuits, and miscellaneous articles valued at £4 15s on the night of May 21 from the house of Taeri Warneford Sewell, Patutahi, a Maori labourer. Manu Kaiwai, aged 19, appeared this morning before Messrs. W. G. Sherratt and G. D. Muirhead, J.Ps., in the Police Court and was committed for sentence to the Supreme Court in Wellington. Sewell said that on the night of the offence all the doors had been closed, but not locked. The accused had worked for him three years ago, and would have known his way about the house. DetectiveSergeant R. H. Waterson said that Kaiwai had admitted the offence in a statement to the police. He said that after a dance he had walked out to Patutahi to see his brother, who was working for Sowell, and it was then that he decided to go into the house. The pocket wallet and two watches he had thrown into the river from the bridge near the Bridge Hotel.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20572, 4 June 1941, Page 6
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