YOUTHFUL BURGLARS.
TWO CAUGHT IN ACT. ONE CARRYING REVOLVER. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 9. Last evening a constable caught two youths in the act of breaking into a oity dwelling, and he took them to the police station. When they were searched it was found that one of them was carrying a fully loaded revolver. The youths William Alfred Meagher and Jack Sidney Valentine Bott, appeared before Mr E. V. Mosley, S.M., in the Magistrate s Court this morning. . , Meagher was charged with carrying a pistol beyond the limits of his home without having a license to do so, and he and Bott were jointly charged with breaking and entering bv night, on December 2, the warehouse of E. Reece (Ltd.), and stealing goods to the value of £l4. Chief Detective T. Gibson asked for a remand until December 14, and said that he would strongly oppose any suggestion of bail. The youths admitted breaking into the warehouse and stealing two revolvers and 200 rounds of ammunition. A remand was granted accordingly.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19969, 10 December 1926, Page 11
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