PASCOES BURGLARY TRIAL
1 Special to Northern Advocate.”l AUCKLAND, This Day. On charges of being involved in the sensational burglary at the jewellery premises* of James Pascoe, in Karangahape Road, on August 19 last, Robert Cockburn, aged 29, appeared at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon and today. Earlier in the week another suspect in the same burglary was acquitted. Cockburn was charged with breaking and entering premises, and stealing gold oddments and £5 in money, of a total value of £1197 8/6.- There were further counts of stealing nine pieces of gold, valued at £4O, and alternatively of receiving the bars, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on the charge of receiving nine pieces of gold, and not guilty on the breaking, entering and theft charges,
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Northern Advocate, 6 February 1936, Page 4
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