CHARGE OF BURGLARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15915, 7 November 1913, Page 3

CHARGE OF BURGLARY.

COLOURED MAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (Peb United Pbess Association.) AUCKLAND, November 6. Charged with committing two burglaries at Mercer, also with money from an Auckland tradesman wit'li intent to defraud, a coloured man, Archie Wm Taylor, was brought before the police court to-day. It was alleged by the prosecution that the accused, who had but recently arrived in the country as a member of a company of minstrels, started operations in Auckland on October 16. According to the evidence he went to a hairdresser and represented himself as a tailoring firm's traveller. Accused was stated to have induced the hairdresser to pay £1 as a deposit for a suit, leaving the balance. He never returned with the suit, and tilt- hairdresser came to the conclusion that he had been victimised. The accused, it was alleged, had no connection with tailoring firm. The accused, it was further aliened, was next heard of at .Mercer several days later. A Maori living in a five-roomed house near that town locked up his dwelling on October 20, prior to going into isolation during tlie_ smallpox scare. Five days later he revisited the house and found that it had been broken into. Jewellery, sundry articles, and money to a total value of £46 7a 6d were missing. A whare belonging to another isolated Maori had also been broken into, and about £3 worth of poods stolen. In close proximity to the wharo a receipt book was found, and it was alleged tint the book was identical with the one us°d by the accused when he obtained the £1 deposit from the hairdresser. The accused was subsequently found in Auckland pawning some of the stolen jewellery. Taxed with having committed tiie burglaries he threw the blame on to a friend of his. The accuser! pleaded not guilty, and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.