CAUGHT IN THE ACT
‘ ‘ TINKER ” AS • HOUSEBREAKER.
PLEADS GUILTY TO EIGHT
CHARGES,
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day,
At the Magistrate’s Court, Henry Patrick Moore, aged 38, pleaded guilty to eight charges of * breaking and entering various houses early this month and committing theft. The police said that accused travelled around as a tinker. To gain entrance he broke headlights over doors or windows and then loosened the catch. In all, he had taken £IOO worth of goods and jewellery from the eight houses. He was caught in the act in a Sydenham house. Moore was committed for sentence. Bail was not applied for. —Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 22 May 1928, Page 4
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