BURGLARY AT OTAKI

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10718, 12 October 1920, Page 6

BURGLARY AT OTAKI

YOUTH CONFESSES TO CHIME. An 18-year-old lad named Robert George Neill was apprehended by Constable O'Donohue at Otaki on Saturday afternoon (writes the "Times" correspondent) on a charge of having burglariously entered th© business premises of Messrs Bills and Moore at Otaki railway, and stealing therefrom two suits of clothes, value £l2, , two pairs of boots £3 10s, two shirts £l, two pairs braces 10s. two ties 10s, one pair socks 3s, one tomahawk 6s, one overcoat .£6 10s, one rug £2 ss, five packets matches 12s, forty packets tobacco £4, nine tins tobacco £1 10s; total, £32 16s. It is alleged that tho lad entered the premises.with gloves on to hide linser-prints, Abstracted the articles mentioned, and lodged them in his rbom_ at a boardinghouso whero ho was staying-. His companion, noticing the tomahawk, did not deem his position too sure, and informed a. factory hand, whose suspicions were aroused, arid he reported farther, enabling Corfstable O'Donohue to inquire further. Tho lad stoutly denied tho chargo at first, but later admitted it, and in consequence appeared before Mr C. H. Williams, J.P., and was remanded until Tuesday. Hull is at present on a three-years' probation due to breaking and entering in Wellington.