CAREER OF BURGLARLY
A LABOURER SENTENCED (By Telegraph—Press Association) PALMERSTON N'., 30th April. In the Palmerston North Court today, Patrick Janies Burke, a labourer, aged 45, was charged with being found in possession of explosives without lawful purpose, and witli stealing a revolver. He was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be concurrent. Burke was committed for sentence in the Supreme Court on charges of breaking and entering the Gaiety Theatre at Napier and stealing goods and money, and of breaking and entering the premises of the Manawatu Club at Palmerston North and stealing money and goods. In each of these two cases evidence was given of explosives having been' vised on safes. The accused pleaded guilty, and was remanded to Wanganui, on a charge of breaking and entering at Halcombe.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 2 May 1934, Page 9
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