THEFT OF SOVEREIGNS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 70, 6 March 1930, Page 6

THEFT OF SOVEREIGNS

CHARGE AGAINST YOUNG MAN. LPer Press Association.] Wellington, March 5. John Charles Turvey, alias Davis, a cook, aged 26. pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to a charge of stealing 80 sovereigns, the property of Eraclis Pippqs. Turvey was further charged with receiving 61 sovereigns knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. Detective McLellan said that alter the accused had arrived back from Australia, escorted by Constable Adams he interviewed him at the police station. Accused told him that lie was pleading guilty to the theft. Accused said that he had stolen the sovereigns and had changed them for Australian notes at a Wellington bank and that £56 in Australian notes found in his possession were notks he had received at the hank' in exchange for the gold Accused said he only had 61 sovereigns, not. 80. Witness told him that 80 We stolen and the accused replied, ‘‘l’lll pleading guilty and 1 don't want to get anyone else into trouble.” Accused continued, witness said, that he had arrived from Sydney as a stowaway on February 4 and on his arrival he had had no money. Accused was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.