TAKAKA ROBBERY
(JAUGHT IN THE ACT. (Per Press • Association —Copyright) NELSON, May 21. The story of how Ernest Clift’oi • Wadsworth, managing director of E C. and E. M. Wadsworth, Ltd. L’akaka. solved .a mystery of missim coods was revealed in Takaka Magis rate’s Court to-day, when Bober! Oarling Welsh, aged 32, married, car ier, pleaded guilty to four informa ions of theft, one of breaking am ntering with intent to commit i rime, and 21 charges of breaking am ntering. The charges involved ai mount of about £4OO. Wadsuort ■iid be waited on bis firm’s premise 11 night, and bad a rifle with him ‘t. about 0 a.m., he heard sonieom etting through \a window. After hat person was in, witness switcher n the light and demanded of th nan that he put up his hands. Ht ook the man to 'lakaka police sta ■on. It was stated that offences ex ended over a period of four years Considerable stolen property waound in accused’s bouse. Accused wa ommitted to the Supreme Court .Vellington, for sentence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 May 1940, Page 7
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