THEFT OF JEWELLERY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21518, 15 June 1933, Page 14

THEFT OF JEWELLERY

BURIED IN A GARDEN

HOUSE IN WELLINGTON TWO MEN FOR SENTENCE [BY TELEGRAPH PU?:SH ASSOCIATION* 1 WELLINGTON. Wednesday The story of how a house in Evans Bay Road was entered on Jane 3, and a quantity of jewellery stolen, was related before Mr. E. Page, S.M., in the Police Court to-day when William George John Durning, a labourer, aged 22, and James , Lawrence Jamieson Tait, a labourer, aged 23, pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the premises and stealing jewellery. Richard Edward Metz, manager for the Lambton Quay branch of R. Hannah and Company, said that when he left his residence all the doors and windows, with the exception of a fanlight, were securely locked. Upon returning he found the back door open and the house ransacked. .Among the articles missing was about £2O worth of jewellery. Detective Campin said he went with Durning to a house in Aro Street, where he dug up from the garden a bundle containing the articles of jewellery. At the detective office Durning made a statement to the effect that he and Tait had broken into Metz's house and had taken certain jewellery and had later sold some to gold-buyers. When interviewed Tait also admitted the burglary. Detective Campin said there were still certain articles missing. Both accused pleaded guilty and were committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Bail was refused.