BURGLARIES ADMITTED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20724, 18 November 1930, Page 12

BURGLARIES ADMITTED.

A SERIES OF OFFENCES. MAN COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. Six charges of breaking and entering and theft and three charges of theft, involving articles to the value of £36 18s, were admitted by William Pearee, aged 69. fireman, in tlie Police Court yesterday.Henry Wallace Robinson, watchmaker and jeweller, .374. Khyber Pass Road, said thai, at, about. 8.25 p.m. on November 2 lie returned to his .shop and found that a window had been broken, presumably by accused, whom witness' son had detained in the doorway. The four watches produced in Court were taken from witness' window and wero valued at £lO. John Wallace Robinson, son of the previous witness, said lie was sitting in a room at the back of the shop when he heard the sound of breaking glass. He went to the front of the shop, where he found accused, who denied breaking the window. Witness later handed accused over to a constable. Evidence of having had their shop windows broken and robbed at night was given by fivo other shopkeepers, Henry Clarkson, 38, Ponsonby Road; Robert •Toshua Criitfen, 198, Great North Road; Ernest Ivil, Vulcan Lane; Horace Bolton, 21, Pitt, Street ; and Gladdie Orr, 150, New North Road. Detective Moon said that when interviewed accused gave his name as William Pearee, but the following day he told witness he had been staying at a city house under the name of Nichols. Witness went tQ tho address given and recovered some of the missing property. Accused subsequently maintained that bis name was Widdicombe and signed a statement admitting tne offences under that name.

The magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, committed accused to the Supreme Court for sentence.