ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20383, 11 October 1929, Page 16

ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY.

MAN SEEN BREAKING GLASS. JUST RELEASED FROM PRISON. An attempt to break and enter the premises of Trenwith Brothers, boot manufacturers, in Wakefield Street, early on the ovening of October 2, was admitted in the Police Court yesterday by Walter Frederick McCarthy, aged 46, a labourer. At the conclusion of the hearing of evidence McCarthy, who was not represented by counsel, pleaded guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.

A director of the firm, Alfred Trenwith, said that when ho left the warehouse was securely locked, the rear door being secured by a wooden bar across it on tho inside. The following morning, a glass panel in the door was found broken, but. nothing was missing. Harold Howard, a resident of Wakefield Street, whose homo overlooks the factory, stated that shortly after 6 p.m. on October 2 he heard tho sound of breaking glass, and on looking from a window saw accused standing on the rear steps of the factory. Witness informed tho constable on duty at the corner of Queen and Wakefield Streets, and they returned to tho factory, finding accused standing by the door, pulling glass from it. Constable Carson, who was called to the scene by the previous witness, stated that when he first saw accused McCarthy held a piece of putty in his hand. Ho immediately threw it away. A pane of glass in the door was brokon, giving access to the bar securing the door. Anyono could easily gain access by putting his hand through the hole in the glass. Sergeant Culloty stated that after accused was interrogated at tho rear of tho factory, Mrs. Howard said to accused, "You are the guilty one," and accused replied, "I am tho guilty ono all right." Next morning accused made a statement admitting the offence. McCarthy stated that ho had been discharged from Mount Eden prison in the morning, and intended to go to Mercer to employment in tho afternoon. After drinking in a number of hotels all day he went at closing time to the factory, and picking up a stono in the yard, broke the panel in the door. Had it not been for the liquor he would have gone on tho train to Mercer.