WINDSOR BROTHERS AGAIN.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 March 1927, Page 8

WINDSOR BROTHERS AGAIN.

CHARGE OF BURGLARY AT DAY'S BAY. A PLEA OF GUILTY. ALBERT WINDSOR ASSISTS THE POLICE. The threo brothers Windsor (Albert, Joseph and Lawrence), who were sentenced on February 18th to 12 months' imprisonment for escaping fiom custory at North, and who were also committed for trial on the charge of breaking and entering the Levin railway station, appeared before Mr E. Page, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington, yesterday, charged with breaking and entering the shop of Charles Greenwood, at Day's Bay, and stealing goods to the total value of £ll9 9s 6d. The charge was a sequel to a robbery at Day's' Bay Pavillion on the night of January 5, when the safo on the premises was taken, and the shop ransacked. Detective P. Kearney said that on January 27th the safe was recovered in a creek under the concrete bridge at the junction of Tsita Gorgo and Stokea Valley. On February 3, the three accused were brought "to the detectives' office, but would admit nothing. A tire lever was taken from Lawrence Windsor's car, and when fitted into the marks on the door of the Day's Bay Pavilion, corresponded exactly. On February 12th, Albert Windsor showed the detective where the cash box and safe drawer taken at the Day's Bay robbery were hidden, at Akatarawa. He also showed witness th: spot whore the safe was thrown into the creek, and various holes in the gar den of the house of Joseph and Lawrence Windsor, and their parents, in Witako Street, Lower Hutt, whorcj he said, his brothers had hidden the goods at the time the house was searched. Albert also made a statement to the effect that he wished to disclose everything concerning burglaries at Day's Bay Pavilion. Lower Hutt Theatre, Levin Railway Static n, Otaki Dairy Factory, and Pahiatna Railway Station He had not helped his brothers to do the job at Day's Bay, but the latter had afterwards told him all about it From Lower Hutt the stolen go -ds were taken and "planted" at Akatarawa, and from there to Alanakau, where Albert went to reside. While Albert Winds< r was visiting his brother in prison at Te Awamutu, in company with Lawrence and the latter had told him that they had attempted to blow open rhe safe at the Lower Hutt Town Hall, but were disturbed.

Further evidence was given of how the accused had been riiridowed at Akatarawa and Manakau. and how the police had recovered the stolen g oods. as well as a benzine tin containing forty plugs of gelignite and a handbag containing detonator caps. Th<3 accused had finally been questioned together in prison on March 11, where they all admitted committing the offence at Day's Bay. The three brothers guilty, and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.