SERIES OF CHARGES.
LABOURER BEFORE COURT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 5. Jack Harry Payne, aged 26, a labourer, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to a charge of robbery with violence, also to twelve charges of breaking and entering and thett, and one of breaking and entering with intent to commit theft. The majority of the places entered by Payne belonged to Chinese. Several of the charges related to offences at Wei lingtnn. Others were offences at Wanganui, Palmerston North, Dannevirke and Hastings. The Magistrate did not consider it necessary to hear formal evidence on each charge, but Ngan Kay Fun was called to hive his vXersion as regarded an affair at his place. He said that at about 11 p.m. on January 16 a man called. Witness was sitting behind the counter, and when he got up he . saw that the man had an automatic pistol in his hand. When witness tried to get from the back of the counter, the man attacked him, hitting him over the head with the gun. The man took about £6 from the till and escaped from the shop. Evidence was also given in relation to ,two other premises broken into and robbed. Accused was committed for sentence.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 109, 5 April 1933, Page 2
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