PAWELKA PLEADS GUILTY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 123, 1 June 1910, Page 5

PAWELKA PLEADS GUILTY.

TO CHARGES os!' THEFT.

BUT NOT GUILTY TO ARSON.

[press association.]

PALMERSTON N,, June 1. In the Supreme Court this morning, .Joseph J. Pawelka pleaded guilty to all charges of furniture; stealing which comprised the first series- of offences before he escaped from gaol; also to a number of minor offences. Included in the pleas of guilty were the follow;ing: Breaking and entering, and theft ■of furniture from the premises of Hope, Kidd, N. J. Metcalf, J. B. •'Clarkson, and Co. (theft of goods and cigars), Mrs Jane Hardley, J. Robbie, H. R. Cooper, Helen McKay, Ash'hurst railway station (theft of stamps) J. Francis, Longburn (theft of meat), Millar and Giorgi (theft of goods). In the last-mentioned case Pawelka pleaded not guilty to a charge of arson at the same premises. He pleaded guilty also to theft of a bicycle and escaping from lawful custody. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of arson at the High School, :and the case is now before the Court.