WOMAN BURGLAR
FIREARMS IN POSSESSION - . REMANDED FOB SENTENCE. MALE ASSOCIATE ALLEGED. (Per Press Association.—-Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Suggestions that an linkown man was the moving spirit, in a robbery, were made in the Police Court today, when Ngaio Turner, aged 18, a dressmaker, pleaded guilty and was remanded to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of breaking, entering and stealing a gramophone and records and clothing valued at £lO7 Os. The evidence of detectives was that on searching the accused’s room they found an 'automatic pistol, a six-cham-bered revolver, a bludgeon and a small torch. The stolen goods were recovered at the Railway ■ Station, where they had been left by the accused in suit cases. She had been in trouble before and the detectives were of opinion that she was not alone in the robbery, but -was assisted by a man w T ho had influence over her. The police do not know who the man is. Accused had denied his existence.
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Northern Advocate, 7 May 1930, Page 4
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164WOMAN BURGLAR Northern Advocate, 7 May 1930, Page 4
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