COURTS AND OFFENCES

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 5 September 1929, Page 9

COURTS AND OFFENCES

THEFT OF TWO OVERCOATS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 5. Two months ago Albert Henry Pinnager visited the National Bank, took an overcoat and pawned it for 10s-. It was valued at, £5. A few days ago lie again visited the bank, took another coat valued at £3 and also pawned this. Both coats were the property of the same owner, George A. Hudson. Pinna.ger, who is 50 years of ago, received a sentence of three, months imprisonment, sentences fo he concurrent in the .Magistrate’s Court to-day. THEFT AND RECEIVING CHARGES' ADMITTED. AUCKLAND. Sept. 5. Nathaniel Cameron Gow was charged at the Police Court with breaking and entering a shop in. Karangaha-pe- Road and stealing 350 gramophone records valued at £llß. He was also charged with stealing carpenters’ tools valued at £l9 from a job at Epsom. The accused admitted having gained entry to the premises by sealing a fence and battering a hole through the floor early in the afternoon. He was committed for sentence. Harry Foreman, aged 27, a- secondhand dealer, who admitted receiving from Gow 240 gramophone records for which lie, paid £6O. knowing them to have been stolen, was- committed for sentence.