LOSS AND RECOVERY

Northern Advocate, 20 July 1933, Page 5

LOSS AND RECOVERY

PURLOINED SILVER, CULPRIT SENT TO GAOL. (Special,to “Northern Advocate.”) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. In the Supreme Court today John Ralph Penney, aged 31, taxi driver, of Auckland, was sentenced to IS months’ imprisonment by Mr Justice MacGregor on the charge arising out of the loss and recovery at. Wanganui recently of £Bl3 in silver, the property of William Toomey, of Penney pleaded guilty to a charge of theft of the silver in the Magistrate's Court at Wanganui on June 21, and was committed for sentence. Toomey, in evidence, told how he employed accused to convey him from Auckland to Wellington with the silver. He said that accused knew ho had the silver in throe bags, but did not know the value. Previously, accused had conveyed a large quantity of silver to Wellington for witness. Witness, detailed events following the disappearance of the car at Wanganui, its subsequent recovery with the silver gone, and a conversation he had with accused on their journey back tu Auckland. Witness also described how he later returned to Wanganui and assisted in the search for the missing silver.

Since then, a resident of Auckland gave himself up. to the police in Wanganui on a charge arising out of the same incident. THIRD SUSPECT. REMANDED TO WANGANUI. (Special to “Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, This Day. Arrested yesterday afternoon by Detective Stevenson, Hugh Glover, aged 33, motor driver, appeared in the Police Court before Mr F. K, Hunt, S.M., charged that at Wanganui, on June 14 he did steal £Bl3, the property of William Toomey. This is the third suspect arrested in connection with the quantity of silver coin which was stolen from a motor car at Wanganui on June 14. De+fictive-Sergcant McHugh asked that accused be remanded to appear at Wanganui on Friday next. Glover, for whom Mr A. Wilson appeared, was remanded until Friday.