SERIES OF CRIMES.
BREAKING AND ENTERING.
TWO MEN ADMIT OFFENCES
[BY TELEGRAPH.'—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Wednesday.
Four charges of breaking and entering and theft were admitted by Francis Charles Comey and Robert Cyril Southwood, both aged 28, in the Police Court to-day. They also pleaded guilty to the conversion of a motor-car and a motorcycle. It was alleged in evidence that on November 24 accused broke into two houses, taking goods and money, valued at £8 4s, from one, and goods, including revolvers, valued at £l6 3s 6d, from the other.
Three clays later they took a motor-car and broke into a shop at Mornington. They abandoned the car and the following day broke into a house and stole two revolvers. Thence they went to the Winter Show Grounds and took a motor-cycle, on which they went to Gisborne, where they committed further robberies, for which they were arrested at Opotiki. Accused were sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the terms to be concurrent, on each of the conversion cjiarges, and were committed to the Supreme Court in respect to the major charges.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20162, 24 January 1929, Page 13
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181SERIES OF CRIMES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20162, 24 January 1929, Page 13
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