A SURPRISE.
FOUND THE POLICE WAITING. BREAKING AND .ENTERING. (by TELEGRAPH— PRKSB ASSOCIATION.) . AUCKLAND, June 13. At. the Police Court to-day Patrick Oleary and Ernest Young were charged wuth breaking and entering and theft of explosives. The evidence showed that accused hired a taxi at midnight and went to Kohimarama where they broke into a shed, stole the explosives, and then motored, to Ellerslie, where they left the taxi and endeavoured to enter a store and entered the Read Board’s off ice. In- the meantime the taxi+kVer 1^? ecame suspicious and informed the police, the accused heino- arrested on returning to board the car. , Clear y pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment tor being in possession of explosives. He was convicted and discharged for the theft of explosives, and was committed for sentence for breaking and entering. .Young pleaded not guilty and vas convicted on the two summarv charges and was committed for sentence on the others.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 June 1924, Page 7
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160A SURPRISE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 June 1924, Page 7
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