ENTERING AND THEFT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18320, 9 February 1923, Page 9

ENTERING AND THEFT.

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''"Smart "work by two constables resulted ■ in the • appearance of three young men in, the Police Court yesterday before Mr. J. W Poyhton, S.M., to answer a charge of , breaking and entering' the .premises iof> Hancock and Co., Fort ■ Street, and steal- ",..;:. ine 12 bottles of whisky, valued at; So.?% : l Accused, \ for : whom : Mr ■£ Dickson ap- $ peared, were; Thomas Leslie, t aged 25;, ~ John Crane, aged 28; and Jack Howell^ Ernest ' Davis, a director of the company, said a, window c that abutted on : ,to^ :):v the street had been broken. Ihe person who had taken the whisky bad not en- ■ tered on the premises, but put his arm through the iron bars. , Constables Aplm and Wakelm gave evidence that v they visited ;;■ Hancock's premises' in ■ consequetico of < certain informa- , . tion and, noticed three men walking up . Emily Place. *;The constables passed and ~ ' then turned back, aad'on their I approach the : men ran up Aozac Avenue, taking : bottles, ; of i- whi&ky ; from their pockets arid throwing them into the ; grass. i ,*. Constable Wakelin arrested # Crane and, Constable Aplin; caught v Leslie, who tbtfjjrw away a ■ pair of pincers. The third man got away. Accused pleaded guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court, for sentence, A : ': bMV.-bwg; allowed, ,-•« , . '-SMi