WAREHOUSE THEFTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21639, 3 November 1933, Page 13

WAREHOUSE THEFTS

FOUR YOUNG MEN GUILTY COMMITTAL FOR SENTENCE TWO ADMIT OTHER CHARGES A recent series of burglaries in city warehouses had a secjucl in the Pol ire Court yesterday, when Jour young men appeared before Mr. I l '. Iv. Hunt. S.M.. on various charges. The accused were Rupert John Aslnnore. aged 22, cook; Rupert George Hell, aged 2-1, labourer; Kenneth Murray and Charles Erie Black, aged 21. Murray and Bell were represented by Mr. Noble and Black by Mr. Aekins. The four men were charged with breaking and entering by day the warehouse of Dehydrated Products, Limited, at 19 Franklin Road, and stealing a cheque and goods of a total value of X'.'! 10s. Ashmore, 801 l and Murray were also charged jointly with breaking and entering by night the warehouse of Crockett's Shoe Company, at 16 South Street, Newton, and stealing four pairs of shoes, valued at. £2 10s; breaking and entering the premises of Seeds Wholesale, South Street, and committing the crime of theft and breaking and entering by night the warehouse of ; Barker, Smith and Lynch, at 01 Xew- | ton Road, and stealing goods valued at 1 £7 10s. Evidence concerning the offences was ' given by members of the firms conI corned. J Detective Hunt snid be interviewed ! the four accused and each admitted the | offences with which he was charged. Pleas of guilty were entered by the four accused, who were committed to | the Supreme Court for sentence. A further charge of stealing an electric radio set, valued at £2O. the property of Melverns' Great Household Stores, was admitted by Bell. Detective-Sergeant O'Sullivan said that accused entered a billiard saloon at night, cut the connections and took the set away. Lie later sold it. The Magistrate: He has just come out after .doing two years. Mr. Noble: He is what we call ,i Borstal old boy, and has all the traditions of that school behind him. The magistrate observed that he had now he.vond the Borstnl. Mr. Noble: The gaol will be full of young men. Ihe Magistrate: (If course it will if they all start as he did. He started in 1024 and never stopped Accused was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Charges of obtaining clothing valued at £8 10s and £6 17s in money by means of a valueless cheque, and of attempting to obtain other clothing by means of two similar cheques, were admitted by Ashmore. said that accused had obtained some clothes by means of a valueless cheque and had been given change. He had also attempted to buy clothing with two other cheques, all of which had been stolen from one of the buildings entered. Ho had been in trouble previously. Accused was sentenced to six months' I imprisonment on the first charge and ' was convicted and discharged on the ' other two.