SMASH AND GRAB
THEFT OF RINGS. TWO MEN FOR SENTENCE. ■ (Special to “Northern Advocate.”) AUCKLAND, This Day. As a sequel to the “smash and grab” raid at a pawnbroker’s shop on September 1, Frank Edgar Gibson, aged 18, a painter, and William Ernest Hewins, aged 26, a labourer, pleaded guilty today to breaking and entering and stealing 44 diamond rings, of a value of £ll2. They are to appear in the Supreme Court for sentence.
After the theft, they wqnt to Hamilton, where Gibson . was arrested trying to sell a ring-. Hewins reached Wellington, selling a few rings on the way, and, when arrested, handed over 34 rings.
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Northern Advocate, 17 September 1934, Page 5
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