EXTENSIVE THEFTS BY NIGHT

Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 December 1930, Page 4

EXTENSIVE THEFTS BY NIGHT

TWO! MEN ADMIT THEIR GUILT.

(uy Telegrapn—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. A series of thefts from premises by night, carried out with the aid of a motor car ,skeleton keys and stolen, impilements, wag admitted in the Police i Court to-day by two electrician's, Robert Meynell Calvert and William Gladstone Thoms, each aged 21. They were committed for sentence. The charges to which Thom® and Robert Calvert pleaded guilty were ten of breaking and entering and theft, and three of theft of money and goods. Williams Francis Calvert, aged 23, a carpenter, denied five charges of breaking and entering and theft, and one charge of receiving goods knowing; them to have been dishonestly obtained, and he was committed for trial. The total value of the money ane goods concerned was £437 10s.

All three were remanded to appear at Paliiatua on December 5 on a joint charge of breaking and entering and theft of money and goods valued at £253 4's 4d.

Detective McLennan gave evidence that on November 18 in company with Detective Jarrold lie arrested Thoms i and Robert Calvert at their homes sit Petone and William Calvert at his home at Eastbourne. In possession of, each accused was found a quantity of goods that had been stolen from different shops. Thoms and Robert Calvert admitted the offences, but William Calvert said in respect of the charges before the court that the goods in his possession had 'been given him by the two other acoused. Robert Calvert and 1 Thoms made statements in which they described the different thefts they had committed in Lower Hutt, Petone, Moera and Pahiatua..