COURTS AND OFFENCES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 June 1928, Page 7

COURTS AND OFFENCES.

MG'N DEIBRMUD’s HIS FATHER

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

.PALMiEIRStON’ NJune 27

the story or now a son uauiH.uv.-ti Ms i-aLj.er o-r lOy posing as a wireless operator was taw in the runed court, v.-ocit ,i<aipai itusse/.i Mini pieadeo goji.ty ol receiving iuj in.,dii Jus raine, *yj means, or lalse-pieumces.

nil© fatner staieu Hat two years ago tne accused, sam l unit ne him ,n a wi.eitas iscao'ol at \i e.iuugum ana imu giujii him £l» and altogether had given him iujy as Lie accused said lie had a posii,i oil to go to. ami wo ill d need the money. cue £6o wheun lormed tine basis of the charge -was used by tne acuiouil and hi,s' companion, to go- io Sydney tor a- trip. ; iiie accused was committed to the Snrpieme Court lor sentence.

i PIDEMIC OF BURGLARIES STOPPED.

DUNEDIN, June 27. By the capture of three young men, named emerge William Uren, Laviti iiruce l>e.eridge, and Francis Sinclair i.arn, detecti.es have stopped the epidemic. or burglaries and unlawful con- , ersion of motor-cars in Dunedin and w.aniaru. To-day Tiren and Beveridge pleaded guilty to the conversion of six ca.s valued at £I9OO, two charges or chel fc and one of breaking and entering, while Ward and Beveridge admitted Jght charges ot converting cars valued at 4J289-J. one charge or theft, one charge of breaking and entering, and four charges of burglary. Their plan ivas to take a car urom a, Dunedin parking area to Oamaru, and there ..•onvert other ears. The burglaries snowed more than amateur skill. The mggest burglary was of Wriglit, Stephenson and Co.’s offices in the town hah molding at Oamaru, entrance off the main street being gained by keys .omul among papers concerning the irm in the back of a converted car. \\ ai d and 'Beveridge opened the sate, and removed the cash boxes and goods. They stole £lO4 in money and also goods making a total value of £l7O. They returned to Dunedin in two con.ei ted cars, where they divided the .poll, throwing the cash boxes and p. [Vi's into a creek and destroying cheques. Among their equipment were rubber gloves, torches, masks, and a great collection of burglars’ implements.

The accused pleaded guilty to all charges and were committed for sentence on the indictable charges, while sentence on the summary charges was a itliheld till the Supreme Court sentences were passed. Uren’s bail was re ewed, but hail was refused to Ward and lie. eridge, the Magistrate saying that’the offences were not due to ad- . entiirous silliness, but to a distinct o< iminalitv.