ALLEGED THEFTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 645, 2 March 1923, Page 5

ALLEGED THEFTS.

FROM SEASIDE COTTAGES. As a result of complaints received by the Foxton police on the 27th ult. of houses having been broken into at Manawatu Heads, Constables Owen and O’Donoghuo made investigations and after a search in the sand hills certain footprints were discovered which went in the direction of Rangitikei. These were lost in the. drift sand but the search was continued towards the Rangitikei river. No further traces could be found, but later that evening a young man was arrested near Foxton. On Wednesday morning at the Foxton Police Court, before Mr D. W. Robertson, J.P., a youth named David McPherson Stuart, wno is a stranger to the district, was charged with breaking and entering and theft from the house occupied by G. E. Johnson'at Manawatu Heads. Constable Owen applied for a remand to Palmerston North on Monday next where accused will appear before the Stipendiary Magistrate. The remand was granted. Yesterday the same accused was further charged before Mr D. W. Robertson, J.P., with (1) on 25th February, breaking and entering the dwellinghouse of Tuna Roiri, at the Manawatu Heads, with intent to commit a crime therein; (2) on 27th February, he did steal from the dwelling of Arthur Kenyon, at the Manawatu Heads, the sum of £4 3s 9d; and (3) on the 27th February, at Foxton, he did break and enter the dwelling of R. Moore and steal a quantity of old clothes. On these charges he was also remanded.